Chapter thirty-three: Battle of Our Lives (part two)
Dedicated to Nman1234 whos going through a lot right now. Don't give up man. Hope this chapter helps you keep fighting through, just like the students are. ;) Just think...what would the Man Without Fear do? (That's what I do...not sure if that helps or anything....trying to be a good friend here DX).
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Chapter thirty-three:
Susan Pevenise
Class: Other (Human, Queen)
Powers: None; has horn that can call for help anywhere
Dimension: 8?
The sky in Narnia was beginning to fall.
Trees were starting to die, grass beginning to burn, snow caps melting.
I was sending all the troops I could to assist hero high; the rest I sent to help any citizen they could.
My kingdom was dying.
This could very well be the end of Narnia.
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Kurt Wagner
Class: Mutant
Codename: Nightcrawler
Powers: teleportation, skilled acrobat
Dimension: 6
I was terrified when the sky started to show cracks. I hoped it was simply a demigod or Storm, controlling the weather, but no such luck.
"We are doomed, aren't we?" I asked Shadowcat, staring up at the cracks, which were beginning to get wider and wider
"Not if we stop the Villains and put an end to Project 7." She said determinedly. I smiled.
"That seems like a big if."
"What ifs are possibilities. That's why they're called what ifs." I chuckled.
"And if I said what if we die?"
"I'll phase through you and pull out your spine." I laughed, gripping my sword tightly.
"Well then, I guess I have motivation to stay away from you. See you later Shadowcat." I said, teleporting away and in front of a demigod. I think his name was Michael or something like that. He was in the tournament I knew that.
"The Fates deem me a villain so they sent the devil after me." He said, smirking, welding his own sword. Hazel, another demigod according to Will, was making the Mist vanish so everyone could see the monsters and demigod swords or whatever the Mist was currently hiding.
"He's not a devil, trust me. But I most certainly am." The Devil of Hells Kitchen...I was surprised to see him here. He came like, once for Battle Strategy. This isn't even his school.
That is besides the point. Daredevil kicked Michael back and tossed his sword to me. Grinning and holding them both, I teleported onto his chest. He wished to believe I was a devil? Than I shall be one.
Lord please have mercy on me for I know this is a sin, but know I do this in the hope of protecting my friends from those who follow at Satan's heels.
"The Fates didn't have to deem you a villain for Satan to find you." I said. I felt as if my accent got thicker when I said that...is that possible?
"You heroes won't make it out of here alive. There's no way to turn the device off. It'll just keep going until Hero High has no more power to give it. But by that point, at least three dimensions will be destroyed."
"If Hero High runs out of power, this dimension will be destroyed. And you with it." Daredevil pointed out.
"We all have a purpose in this world. Why, at this moment, I wouldn't be surprised if Red Skull and the other members of the Council fled. They don't want to be destroyed in the battle; that would leave the world with no more leaders."
"You call them leaders. I call them dictators." I said.
"Shut it you German devil. I don't think you should really be throwing that line around." Really? Now I'm getting blamed for Hitler?!
"Are you blaming him for Hitler?" Daredevil questioned. Michael glared at the both of us.
"Long story short, there is no way Hero High can win. Some of your most strongest players are on our side. Doctor Fate doesn't even have enough magic to fight of a Lord of Chaos; I don't see Doctor Strange anywhere. Superman, Batman, Wonder Women. All our side. Don't see a Hulk anywhere either. Face it; you can't win."
"Trust me, we'll find a way." Daredevil said, knocking him unconscious.
"Is what he said true?" I asked him, standing up. Daredevil sighed.
"Don't know Nightcrawler. But you might want to do some praying if I was you." My hand went up to my cross necklace.
"Do you think we can win?"
"I think you shouldn't loose faith."
"And hope for a Hail Mary?"
"Yes, and hope for a Hail Mary, Nightcrawler. But for now, just kick some guys heads in." Nodding with a small smile on my face, I teleported away.
This was our school. And just as we would protect Xavier's school, we needed to protect this one as well.
Giving up wasn't a option right now. It never was.
Now we had to fight for what was ours.
God give me strength to protect those who need my protection. Let my devil tail not confuse me with Satan and instead give me wings so I may fly with the angels above. Let my devil appearance instead of being a burden lift me up and towards a saving grace that shall save my home and friends. Let my gift fill people with hope instead of fear. God, our Lord and savior, please give me strength to do what is right.
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Perseus (Percy) Jackson
Class: Demigod
Godly Parent: Poseidon
Powers: Ability to manipulate water/sea/sealife.
Dimension: 4
I don't exactly remember what went through my head when Harry grabbed my arm and pointed to Reyna, crying over a lifeless body. When he shouted that the lifeless body was someone we knew, and knew well. When I realized that Reyna was crying over Spider-Man.
Maybe it was 'Curse the fates!!' or 'curse the gods!!'
Perhaps it was 'oh crud.' Possibly it had something to do with revenge.
My ADHD kicked in and I saw myself at his funeral, standing where the minister should be saying "We are gathered here today because someone decided to die on us."
It didn't make me feel any better.
"It was an unforgivable curse. The killing one. Killed my parents and Cedric." Harry explained, when Reyna told us what happened through sobs.
"Who said it?" I growled.
"Reyna doesn't know. She said she didn't even know the curse was said. All she was a flash of light and then she fell."
"So we don't know who murdered Peter." Harry shook his head.
"No, we don't." Clenching Riptide tightly in my hand, I tried to calm myself down. Last time I was angry Raphael was sent on a rampage (See Secrets/Stories of Hero High. I wrote that SHS down there). Through I guess a rampage wouldn't be the most terrible thing right now.
"That's just...fantastic." I muttered, staring at Reyna crying over Peter. I don't think I had ever saw her cry...or, you know, show emotions. When she did, it was always Pete who could get her to smile...laugh. He was a giant dork, which I guess she liked because she wasn't afraid to relax around him.
Oh Gods....what if she wanted him to come back to our dimension with her? Lead Camp Jupiter...or the other way around. Pete wanted her to come to meet his Aunt May (met the women once, she seemed pretty chill) and stay with him in his New York.
What if they planned a future together? All of it gone just...down the drain. Wiped away...a future they can never have.
"Percy!!" I jumped at the sound of Aqualad's voice. First time I met the guy he kind of kept calling me Prince, given the fact that my dad is,as you know, Poseidon, and he was naturally a god down in Atlantis. It was more annoying that someone calling me Perseus.
"Sorry what?" Aqualad sighed.
"Katara and I wish for your help dealing with a mutant known as Pyro, along with a few firebending soldiers. The Human Torch was going to, but the Invisible Women shut him down."
"And Iceman is...?"
"Preoccupied with other matters. Now are you with me?" I looked at Harry.
"If you die on me, I'll go into the Underworld and make sure you end up in the Fields of Punishment." He chuckled, a sad smile on his face.
"Been there, done that, not in the mood to do it again." He joked.
"Come Perseus; time is of the essence." Okay, so maybe he can go back to calling me Prince Perseus. At least that makes me sound cool.
Speaking of cool, I really wanted to learn how Aqualad had those sword things. Those looked cool.
When we got past the rubble and mass slaughter of Hydra Agents at the hands of Black Widow (not sure if she took care of them all, I'm just saying she was the only one there; also not sure if they were dead or not) we found Katara battling firesnakes, while barley holding off the firebenders that were assisting this guy.
"I will handle the soldiers. You can deal with Pyro." Oh great. Thanks Kaulder'ahm.
"You think you can stop us? Taking over your school was easy!!" Pyro taunted.
"Kinda like how battling you will be a easy of cake too." I'm not knocking Katara and Kaulder's skills; both have beaten me in sparring before. I'm just saying they need to get creative on where they find their water.
Raising up my hand, I felt the pipes burst from the water pressure, and I was satisfied when the water circled around me.
"Don't mess with a demigod, son." I said, sending the water towards him, extinguishing his flames, and soaking the firebenders. Katara took the excess water and turned it to ice, trapping them on the wall. Kaulder knocked them unconscious so they couldn't use bending and break free.
"See? That was--." Didn't even get to finish saying that God awful sentence before an arrow flew past my head, hitting an AIM Agent in the chest.
"Were you just about to saying something was easy? You never say that!! You're a demigod, you should know this!!" Green Arrow lectured me. Hawkeye was starting to rub off on him, despite the fact that they hated each other (again, see Secrets/Stories of Hero High. Wrote that down there too). Due to this fact, I would never point out that Arrow sounded like the Hawk.
"Aren't you being a little extreme? I mean, that's to Percy's help, it was pretty easy..." Thanks a lot Katara.
Something (or someone) blasted me forward (in the back, dick move) sending me tripping over rubble and probably cutting my leg up. Luckily there was still water on the ground, so after about thirty seconds I was good.
"Vision. Ultron's little pet."
"I am not Ultron's pet, I am his vision of the future."
"Yeah, hence the name." Red Arrow (his prodigy or whatever) snorted, firing two arrows at the machine. They both missed, going straight through and blowing up the wall behind it.
Because that's what this school needed, more destruction.
"You missed."
"It's rare that I actually miss." A piece of the ceiling crumbled and flew on top of him, seemingly crushing the android.
"I doubt that will keep him for long so I suggest we start moving." Green Arrow said. I stood up.
"Moving where?"
"Um, away from here?" I rolled my eyes. He needed to stop spending time near Hawkeye.
"Reistance is futile, yet you still continue to do it. Why?"
"Because we aren't fighting to save our own skins. We're fighting to save each other, our friends and those who cannot fight for themselves." Kaulder should totally become an inspirational speaker.
"It is illogical."
"Our specialty." I said.
"We're imperfect yes, but so is Ultron. Destroying the world would only mean peace for him, not peace for humanity." I'm pretty sure if all of humanity just died, Hades would come after Ultron (whoever he is).
I could see it now. World ends and Hades appears on Earth like 'where the Hades is this guy?' And Ultron's just like--
Percy focus!! You can't let anyone else die. Pete was quiet enough death for one day....or a lifetime.
"I do not understand." Vision said. Poor robot android thing. He looked...lost. confused even. How "old" was he?
"Well take some time to think on it." Red Arrow said, throwing down a smoke bomb. Or maybe smoke arrow?
Either way, Katara, Green/Red Arrow, Aqualad, and I made our way away from the Android. I ended up jumping out a window to take out a monster, and I don't remember where the rest of them went.
I do however, remember thinking
'In memory of Peter Benjamin Parker, the best hero out of us all'.
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Samuel (Sam) Wilson
Class: Agent, S.H.I.E.L.D
Codename: Falcon
Powers: Ability to speak to birds, flight suit
Dimension: 6
When the sky started to break, I was terrified.
When the ground started to shake, it was only the beginning. It was the machine, project 7, using this dimensions energy to power up the machine. Freaky right? Then it started to tear apart dimensions, which wasn't good.
We needed to shut it down, and fast.
On top of all that, Spider-Man was dead. I didn't want to believe it, especially when I saw Reyna crying and screaming at the sky. But he was gone.
"Wilson look out!!" I found myself frozen in ice up against the wall, pulled away from my thoughts. The Avengers (excluding Hawkeye and Widow who were somewhere; however, it did include Captain Marvel, and She-Hulk, who I guess they picked up on their way here?) were up with Hank and I, trying to stop Ultron-Zane while Reed Richards tried to figure out how to shut the stupid thing off.
So far he had nothing.
"You need to get your head in the game." Captain Marvel scolded, using her photon blasts to get me down.
"In my defense, I just saw a good friend of mine die. Worst part is I don't know who killed him. So forgive me if I'm not totally there." Forgive me if I think his death is my fault because it one hundred percent is.
I let Peter go off and fight the Sinister Six alone. I knew he was hurt and still let him do it. I wasn't there to watch his back and make sure that stupid spell didn't hit him.
I wasn't there. His death was on my hands.
"Watch the attitude Wilson. I'm sorry about your friend but right now we need you here." Sometimes I wasn't sure who was worse; her or Captain America.
"Right. Sorry Ms."
"Captain now. Ms. Marvel is a completely different person."
"You Avengers are pathetic. You think what you do saves the world...protects it. You do not take into account the fact that you create most of your monsters...look at Doctor Banner of course." With Zane's ice powers, and Ultron's intelligence, it made fighting him even harder. The fact that a friend had just fallen and Zane used to be my friend as well? Even harder.
However, he was creepier looking considering half of his face was torn off thanks to Hank....so now it was like really creepy.
So I turned my attention to Doctor Richards.
"Find out how to destroy this thing?" Hank and Reed shook their heads.
"Not even close. There's no way to deactivate it; we don't have time to interrogat someone like Lex Luthor and Red Skull; Jean Grey isn't here and Miss Martian apparently isn't good with pulling information from people's heads, according to Annabeth Chase. We don't have any other telepaths powerful enough to probe someone's mind because Charles Xavier is missing and with the firebending turned back on, Martian Manhunter is at a huge risk." Hank ranted.
"So is the sky falling beecause the device is powered by Hero High. It's dimension anyway. It's putting too much strain on the world. To tear apart one world, you need the power of another." I filled in. Reed nodded.
"Yes."
"So we're screwed?" I clarified.
"Not necessarily. But if we don't find an answer soon, then people from Earth Two might need a new Earth to live in." Reed said. I sighed, trying to think. What would Peter do? Make a wisecracking joke then probably come up with an idea so crazy that it might just barely work.
Hank said that we didn't have time to interrogat Red Skull or Lex Luthor...but maybe someone else...someone close who might know something.....
I looked outside, swallowing a lump in my throat when I saw Percy, Harry and Reyna just standing around his lifeless body...but that wasn't the focus now.
I turned my attention to the Prince of the fire nation. He was dueling with his sister, Azula and some of her lackeys, with Raven and I think Nico by his side.
They switched sides.
Which meant one of them might know something.
"I have a bad idea."
"How bad?"
"Spider-Man bad." I said, pushing away the feeling of pain. Captain Marvel was right.
Time to work for a living.
Diving out the window, I took flight, flying towards them. Pulling out my guns and firing at Azula and her crew, I landed next to Zuko and the rest.
"I need your help." I said. Instantly, Prince Zuko nodded.
"Alright. What do you need help with?"
"Project 7. How do we shut it down before it destroys Hero High?"
"You can't; the device is programed to keep going until this dimension has no more energy to provide it with. Only then will it shut off."
"And by the time that happens, Hero High will be destroyed." Raven added on to Nico's comment.
"There must be something we can do."
"What if we send it somewhere else?" Zuko suggested, through still fighting his sister.
"That could work. Rewrite it to only destroy the dimension it's currently on then send it to an unhabited pocket dimension like Hero High." I said, beginning to feel hope again.
This might work. But without Doc Strange here, and Doc Fate not at his full strength, we might have a problem on the teleporting part.
"Raven, gather up Hazel Levensque and Zatanna. Nico, Zuko, you stay here and deal with these three. Raven, meet me in the Tech Lab classroom." I said, taking flight once again, flying over to Doctor Fate.
"I know how to save Hero High, but we need your help."
"I am preoccupied at the moment Falcon, as you can see." Mentally I groaned. I forgot about the Lord of Chaos battle thing he was locked in.
"Well there will be a lot of Chaos if this dimension is destroyed."
"Unfortunately I cannot help you at this moment in time." Doctor Fate said simply. I took off, cursing Fate mentally as I did. This plan was full of lots of chance and luck. Pretty much rested on Hazel and Zatanna at this point.
I felt like I was playing Russian Roulette.
"Falcon! What's your plan?" Hank asked.
"Rewire it. Make it so instead of destroying other dimensions, it'll destroy the dimension it's currently in."
"Alright, but that'll destroy us." Hazel said.
"That's where Zatanna and Hazel come in. They open a portal to an unhabited pocket dimension and send the device there." Reed thought for a moment.
"Yes, yes, that might work. But we have to hurry. We're wasting time."
"Time is not something you have right now." I just barley dodged the ice. By summoning more villains such as the Abomination to his side, Ultron-Zane....Zatron, was able to distract the Avengers.
"Alright, I've had enough of you." Hank handed me his spectacles. "Hold these." He said, before jumping up, snarling at Zatron.
There's a reason we call him Beast, and it's not to be derogatory.
"Hurry!!" Mister Fantastic snapped. Nodding, I quickly helped him get to work.
"Um, would now be a bad time to mention Doctor Strange has the Siege Parallelis? I can only show dimension not open them, and after the firebending stunt, Zatanna doesn't have that much energy."
"We need Doctor Fate, but he can't spare us a second of his time, trust me I already asked." I said, slightly angered by the Doctor's chocie.
"We need to get that, but there's no way we can open a portal in time for you too--."
"Perhaps I can help with that. Or, more correctly, we can help with that." Nico Di'Angelo said, gesturing to Raven next to him.
"Yes!! Raven can help open the portal. Her demon powers might be enough." I said.
"But I don't think I can do it twice. Which is where Nico comes in." She said.
"Grant Ward took me on a dimension hopping trip once, using my shadow travelling to get between the dimensions. He had me wear a device so I wouldn't get off course and kill us both but I destroyed it as soon as I got back." Mister Fantastic stretched out and grabbed some sort of belt from behind Tony's desk.
"You mean this? Stark found it and rebuilt it, but he wasn't sure what it was." Nico nodded.
"Yes, it was that." He said, grabbing it and putting it on.
"Aim for the Sanctum Santorum, it's Doctor Strange's house. Once you get there, get the Siege Parallelis and return here quickly." Mister Fantastic informed Nico and Hazel. The two nodded and quickly vanished in the shadows. Reed and I continued to work on the device, while Zatanna got ready to hold open the portal.
"Retne a ecnart ot eraprep rof eht lautir." She said, while Raven said something even weirder.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos..." She muttered.
"Magic is weird." I said, carefull not to pull too much of my focus away from the device.
"Magic is illogical Falcon, unlike science." I snickered quietly. I knew he would say something like that.
"We're back. And I got something better than the Siege Parallelis." When I turned to Hazel, my eyes widened.
She had the eye of Agamotto.
The eye was around her neck, along with the Doctor's red robe and blue outfit.
"Stephan said that because he wasn't strong enough as a person to use it, doesn't mean that someone else couldn't use the power and save this dimension. He said the Eye chooses who it deems worthy, and it picked Hazel. She's the new Sorcerer Supreme....for the time being anyway." Nico filled us in. Mister Fantastic stood up.
"Just in time; Falcon and I have finished the device, now hurry. This will go off soon." Hazel held up her hands, the eye opening its, well eye.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!!!"
"Nepo a latrop ot na detibahnu tekcop noisnemid!!"
"Eye of Agamotto, open a portal to the unhabited pocket dimension!!" With the combined powers of the three, a portal was opened.
"There's not enough power...it's just a window right now!!" Raven informed us, eyes glowing red.
"Try harder-- I'll get Fate on our side!!" I said, taking off. Before I did, I saw out of the corner of my eye, Zatron ripped practically to shreds by Hank but still moving. That was, before Vision flew out of nowhere, phasing through him and ripping him in half.
It hurt to see another friend go, but all I could think was....Wasn't Vision a bad guy?
"Fate!!" I cried. The Lord of Chaos glared at me.
"Stay out of this mortal!!" He said, sending a blast my way. I just barley dodged, sending my flichetts at him.
They all missed thanks to his magic, but one hit a cat. I felt bad.....
Until I realized the cat was with him.
"You hit my--."
"Leave this place, before there is no longer anything holding you here." Fate demanded. The dude growled but opened a portal and vanished in it.
"You need my help with the portal." Fate said, before I could tell him.
"How did you..?"
"I felt the portal open; I am surprised to see Ms. Levensque with the Eye of Agamotto. " He explained, as we flew to the classroom.
"Doctor Fate!!" Without saying a word, he added his power to the portal. With the combined magic of all of them, the window glowed brighter, going from a window to an actual portal.
"Mister Fantastic!!" I called out. Reed picked up the device and threw it in the portal. Closing it shut, I wondered if it worked. We waited for a moment to see what would happen—were we really done?
"Ms. Levensque, if you don't mind using the Mist and showing us the other dimensions?" Hazel nodded and held up the Parallelis, showing us the other dimensions. Narnia, the Wizard world, the demigod world...and home.
Home sweet home.
We were safe.
We had won.
"Don't celebrate just yet. We still have quite a few badies to clean up." Mister Fantastic said. I nodded.
"I know. But at least we aren't on a time crunch this time."
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Third person Pov
Once the device was taken care of, it was a simple matter of rounding up those who did not manage to flee. No members of the Council were accounted for, however Sin, the daughter of Red Skull who was disguised as Madame Hydra (she was not allowed in the Council meetings and therefore disguised herself as someone who was) was captured, which was a win for S.H.E.I.L.D.
All members of the Justice League were set free from Savage's control, but it didn't stop Tony from mocking Bruce Wayne about being out smarted.
Donatello Hamato was freed along with all of the other high threat prisoners, and was scheduled to be sent to Wakanda in order to get the symbiote off of him. Leonardo jumped at the offer to go with him, while his two other brothers stayed and went home to Master Splinter. T'Challa and Storm welcomed the two mutants with open arms.
Students began to celebrate, running to friends and family, before realizing that one student, a popular student at that, had fallen. Reyna had not moved from that spot, her arms wrapped tightly around Peter Parker, and had to be pulled away from him forcefully by Thor Odinson.
"You will see him in Valhalla." He promised, meaning it to be reassuring.
"I want to see him now." She whispered, almost limp in his arms. Finally, she was pulled off him, and encouraged to go clean up. Reyna hovered around Peter's body, waiting to see what they would do with it.
It was also announced that Nick Fury, Albus Dumbledore, and Sensei Garmadon had all fallen as well, and that Charles Xavier was found, unconscious deep below Hero High, telepathy taken from him by a power inhibitor.
Due to the fact the school was destroyed, students were asked to go back home, to their own dimensions until at least a little bit of the school had below repaired, and all of the rubble and broken glass was cleaned up.
"Go home. Rest. Sleep, eat and relax. You have won the day." They were assured. So they did. They went home, back to Camp or wherever, telling their parents it was a surprise vacation, which was bought.
A burial was immediately put into place for the fallen, deciding that as soon as the students were allowed to come back, then they would take place.
Then came the hard part.
Who wanted to tell May Parker that her nephew was dead?
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Hello my little inhumans, metahumans, mutants, agents, demigods, ninjas, and all of the above!!
This book is not yet over!! There is still quiet a few stuff I have to wrap up, including the burials for the fallen ones, what the Headmaster's were doing, and graduations!! And some other stuff too, but you know. That's for later.
I tried to make this as long as I could, for suspension and stuff, hope you like the twist of Hazel becoming the Sorcerer Supreme (even if it was for a few minutes). Wanted to give her an important role and stuff, because most people forget them (guilty).
There's that. Little bit of randomness to cheer you up if you're feeling sad.
Now I need to stop writing, my finger is swollen and blueish, which can't be good. (It's not from writing, don't worry.)
Peace I guess!!
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