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Chapter 4 - Attack on Metroville part 1

At the main base of the Monarch organization, the location of which was kept secret, a crisis situation had just arisen. In the large meeting room, around an oval-shaped table, the director of Monarch, Henri Serizawa, had met with the most senior members of the organization in order to discuss a most serious subject which just happened recently.

_"A few hours ago, our outpost located in Hollow Earth suffered an attack from a titan identified as Titanus Gororsaurus. The base was completely destroyed and many losses are to be deplored." Serizawa explained grimly.

The other people seated around the table, among them Doctor Lewis, were also in shock at the news and Serizawa, although understanding their sentiment, continued.

_"However, there were two survivors of the attack: Professor Ann Possible and her daughter Jia. Kong also survived, fortunately. We sent rescue teams to recover them. Doctor James Possible held to be part of the expedition and his request was accepted."

_"Mr. Serizawa, do we have any idea what triggered this attack?" Lewis asked from her chair.

_"Unfortunately no." Serizawa admitted with a feeling of helplessness. "And that's what's most disturbing. Until now, the titans have remained passive, but we're seeing increasingly unpredictable and unstable behavior in most of them... As if... they instantly went crazy."

This hypothesis was not to reassure the others. If all the titans were to turn against humans, it would inevitably spell the end of this world. But why? What would motivate such a change in behavior? Since the incident in Hong Kong and the destruction of the Mechagodzilla created by Simmons and Drakken, the humans had done nothing to anger the titans. It didn't make the slightest sense, Serizawa thought lost in bewilderment.

_"And... what about the titan Godzilla and this woman, Elsa? Where are they?" one of the men asked.

_"Still in Ahtohallan." Serizawa replied with certainty.

Suddenly, the holographic screens on the back wall made a standard alert noise, catching everyone's attention. A holographic map of the world appeared, showing a red dot beginning to move out of bounds of its territory.

_"Mr. Serizawa..." then warned a voice in the communicator of the room. "Godzilla has just left the Ahtohallan perimeter and is heading west. Radars indicate Elsa's presence with him."

Serizawa and the others were beyond confused.

_"But...why? They hadn't moved since the Hong Kong incident...you think..." Lewis said.

_"Yes..." Serizawa answered without taking his eyes off the screen. "If we've learned anything it's not to rely on coincidences. If the king and queen get back on track, it's always for a good reason... contact Stoppable and Possible agents and activate the Jaeger process. Do we know exactly where the titan and the queen are headed?"

Lewis picked up her holographic tablet and took a few moments to check the trajectory diagnostics on the radar.

_"Yes... Metroville, in the United States."

**********

In Middleton, the sun would soon rise but the majority of the inhabitants were still sleeping soundly in the most relative calm. Snoring in his bed, Ron Stoppable seemed to be having some sort of dream, restless with a few movements in his sleep while in a small cardboard box transformed into a bed, Rufus was also sleeping.

But without him hearing it, the window of his room located on the upper floor of his house was opened from the outside and Kim, dressed as if to go on a mission, entered with a nimble jump into the room and stood there, immediately walked over to her boyfriend whom she grabbed by the shoulders and shook.

_ "Ron, come on, wake up!" she ordered.

_"Huh? What?! What's going on?! I swear to you officer that it was not me who stole the nachos!" panted Ron who opened his eyes and still lost in the dream he had just been abruptly awakened from, then realized he was awake and saw Kim in front of him who was starting to take his communicator. He then looked at his alarm clock on the bedside table which showed 4 am.

_"Uh Kim...? Do you know what time it is?" asked Ron credulously.

_"Get dressed quickly! We are expected at the base! We have a titan alert!" Kim explained in a hurry and threw clothes at him to get dressed.

A titan alert?! Ron sighed with fatigue but obeyed anyway and started to put on his clothes while Rufus, awakened by their words, grumbled in his small, high-pitched voice, rubbing his eyes. He jumped into the pocket of Ron's pants which was then prepared in a few minutes then came to stand next to Kim who, after activating a strange little metallic Monarch bracelet on her wrist, took Ron's hand and looked at the screen of his communicator.

_"It's good, Wade. Go ahead." she says.

_"Parameters verified and stabilized. Recovery point located... Let's go." Wade's voice answered on the screen.

The bracelet lit up with an artificial blue glow and a kind of electric veil began to completely envelop the couple who closed their eyes and gritted their teeth, then disappeared in a blinding and instantaneous flash, as if they had never been in the bedroom. Everything happened in a fraction for them and when they opened their eyes, they were no longer in the room, nor in the house... They weren't even in Middleton anymore.

Hand in hand, they were now under a kind of large metal arch strewn with large glass bulbs containing in them a bluish electrical energy. The huge room they were in was like some sort of high-tech lab where dozens of men and women were housed, all working for Monarch and going about their business while the base was on titanic alert, as confirmed. Ron leaned over, hands on his knees and blew heavily, feeling his stomach queasy.

_"Oh damn... I hate teleporation, I'll never get used to it." he said sickly.

Kim smiled and patted his back lightly to support him a little but knowing that he would recover quickly. Their friend Wade then hurried over to greet them. Thanks to his genius computer skills, he had been recruited by the organization on the recommendation of Kim and his parents, which Serizawa had approved.

_"Good to see you, but we don't have time to talk. Come with me!" Wade asked them eagerly.

The pair followed him out of the transporter lab and walked down a series of base corridors to reach another section. All around them, personnel were moving in all directions. Eventually, they arrived at an airlock guarded by guards, which opened and let them into a room where a team of technicians awaited, as well as equipment similar to high-tech white armors.

_"Ok, get ready! Gipsy Danger is waiting for you." Wade tells them.

Kim and Ron looked at each other, then smiled, determined to carry out this new mission.

_"And where are we going this time?" Kim asked.

_"Metroville."

**********

It was a morning that started like any other in the great city of Metroville, although this one, commonly nicknamed "the city of superheroes", is accustomed to extraordinary events. Superheroes had been around for almost a century now, and even today, the highest luminaries of the scientific world were divided as to the origin of the appearance of superpowers in certain humans. Some hypothesized that it could have to do with the return of these creatures, the Titans, that their energy so unique and extraordinary could affect the human being to the point of giving rise to abilities considered supernatural, but this theory did not find no basis yet. The appearance of superheroes had aroused a lot of admiration among ordinary people, but also a lot of mistrust towards them, proof that the fear of the strange had not disappeared.

On this rather gray and foggy morning, with the sky covered in gray clouds and announcing possible rain, fear reigned in the city center as the central bank was currently under attack from a group of criminals armed to the teeth. The civilians fled in fear while the police forces, hidden behind their cars parked on the sidewalk at the foot of the main steps of the bank, suffered the full brunt of the fire from the gangsters, entrenched in the building and who unfortunately had taken the staff and customers as hostages.

_"We need reinforcements, immediately!" the police chief ordered into his communicator and shielded himself from a flurry of gunfire that shattered one of his car windows and responded with a shot from his pistol.

Several police officers had been seriously injured by gunfire and were being sheltered and cared for by colleagues while awaiting the arrival of hospital services. The deputy chief came up to him.

_"Chief, we can't get near, and these bastards have blocked all the side exits!"

_"But how can they have so many weapons of this sophistication?!" said another policeman, reloading his weapon.

_"They are not simple thieves! These assholes are members of Hydra!" replied the commissioner in frustration.

Hydra. The terrorist organization that has been sowing terror for almost two years now all over the world. The commissioner could not have found a worse situation.

Meanwhile, inside the bank, staff members and any customers unfortunately present during the attack, had been lined up in the back against a wall, seated, bound and gagged with duct tape. Two guards lay lifeless on the ground, shot dead when they tried to stop the thieves. Continuing their heavy fire against the police force, from cover, were the Hydra men, outfitted in their high-tech black and red armour, helmets hiding their faces, rifles and other weapons in hand. One of them took a rocket launcher and fired at a police car which was propelled into the air in a geyser of flames.

Towards the counters of the bank, the rest of the gang was busy collecting all the bags containing the stolen money. The one who seemed to be the leader checked and then activated a communication device built into his helmet.

_"Sir, we have the money and the diamonds."

_"Perfect." replied a male voice, cold, semi-cybernetic. "I dispatched the diversion as planned. He'll be here in a few minutes."

_"Roger. We await his arrival. Over." answered the Hydra soldier, who once finished the conversation with his boss, turned to the hostages, all scared, and then took explosives from his bag which he came to dispose of on them, to their greatest terror. One of the checkout attendants moaned in fear under her gag and began to fidget, but the man threatened her with his gun.

_"Keep quiet or you'll end up like them." he said with terrifying coldness and pointing to the two dead guards.

Once the explosives were all planted on the prisoners, the Hydra soldier readied the detonator in his hand, setting it so that everything exploded at the slightest press of the center button. He turned back to the hostages again.

_"Well, it was a pleasure doing business with you." he said in macabre irony. "But everything comes to an end. Now we're going to leave and if anyone tries to stop us, I'll press on it and..."

He didn't have time to finish his sentence when a very brief and powerful current of air passed right in front of him. Everyone was surprised and the Hydra soldier even more when he noticed that the detonator was no longer in his hand. Stunned, he looked around and he and his men were speechless when they saw that a boy had suddenly appeared, with lightning speed, in the middle of the room, holding the detonator in his hand. He had short blond hair and was dressed like a superhero, a red outfit with black gloves and marked with a symbol, like an I.

_"What the..." panted the Hydra soldier.

_"You didn't see that coming, huh?" said the boy with an arrogant smile.

The Hydra men didn't respond and opened fire on the young boy who immediately disappeared like a flash, moving at superhuman speed and dodging all the shots by running on the walls and ceiling.

_"Fuck, he's one of those damn superheroes!" growled a Hydra man.

_"We don't care! Kill him and get the detonator!" ordered the leader.

But as he fired, one of the terrorists was suddenly hit head-on by the appearance of a purple energy force field. Another was masterfully knocked out by the punch of an elastic arm and another felt a large shadow loom behind him and was thrown against a wall by superhuman strength. The Hydra leader and the rest of his men saw that the boy was not alone. Three others had just appeared. A man, very tall and muscular, a woman and a teenage daughter, all wearing the same outfit.

_"Oh shit..." whispered the Hydra soldier, recognizing them.

_"It's our luck. A bank robbery during the weekend." Violet Parr breathed, jaded.

_"It's clear." Dash said then arriving next to her. "I was sleeping so well. Thieves really have no respect."

_"Kids. Stay focused, it's serious." then said Helen, their mother.

Bob, alias Mr. Incredible, then took a step forward and looked at the criminals with great severity, easily recognizing their outfits because he had already had to deal with them several times in recent months. Dash then gave him the detonator he had recovered.

_"Hydra... You again." he said, crushing the detonator in his hand. "Aren't you tired of getting beaten every time we meet?"

The leader of the terrorist band then backed off and threatened the hostages with his gun, which immediately made the superhero family stop their way forward.

_"Stand back, filthy mutants." he ordered in his threatening voice transformed by his helmet. "I don't have the detonator anymore, but one shot on these explosives and the whole neighborhood will be a pile of ash."

The Incredibles chose to obey and took a step back, raising their hands and being pointed at by the other terrorists. Violet wanted to turn invisible and sneak away, but the criminals were too careful of their actions. The slightest attempt was too risky.

_"You are crazy. If you shoot, you will die too." Helen said then, trying to dissuade him.

_"And after? We are only pawns. Only the will of Hydra matters." replied the soldier coldly.

_"Hail Hydra." said the other soldiers in unison, in a pronounced and chilling fanaticism.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake and a huge thud came from outside, triggering a great panic. The Incredibles were disturbed by this change but the Hydra gang were not at all surprised, on the contrary, as if they expected it.

_"Ah, just in time. Here's our diversion." said the chief.

The entire roof of the bank was suddenly torn off by giant, cybernetic hands, and a colossal shadow came to cover everyone. The Incredibles looked up, staying together, and cringed, both surprised and worried. This thing was 86 meters tall and looked like a large living and mobile, ultra-sophisticated combat armor, completely covered with black plates and with a single glowing yellow eye in the middle of the head, like a kind of visor. The Incredible family remained where they are, unable to take their eyes off this metal monster, not expecting that Hydra could possess this kind of thing, which was far from good news.

_"Jetpacks!" ordered the Hydra soldier to the others and all obeyed, activating jump-starters and all flew through the breach with the bags containing the loot. "Obsidian Fury! Kill Them!"

The huge humanoid mech seemed to respond with cybernetic sounds and acted, his giant fist ready to crush the whole family but Mr. Incredible, with his superhuman strength, came to block the fist with great difficulty.

_"Quick, get the people out!" Bob ordered to his family while gritting his teeth and holding back the mecha's hand as much as possible.

Dash, with his speed, quickly removed all the duct tape that tied people and with the rest of the family hurried to get them out of the bank. Mr. Incredible stayed last, but unfortunately the mecha's other hand came to grab him, slamming him hard against the ground and then throwing him in the air through the wall of the building opposite.

_"Bob!" gasped Elastigirl who had seen it all.

But she and the children had to concentrate on Obsidian Fury who in his terrifying metallic sound straightened up and looked towards them. On the street, people were fleeing in all directions, and the police forces were completely helpless against this thing.

_"Run! Run away, quickly!" Helan then ordered all the people.

Obsidian Fury's shoulders split open, revealing cannons that fired a swarm of missiles at superheroes and civilians alike. Violet focused her power and summoned the largest force field possible, stopping the first volley of missiles that exploded on it.

_"Violet, watch out!" Dash said.

_"I... I won't last long!" Violet said, her body shaking from the repeated effort and power of the missiles hitting her force field.

Unfortunately, another explosion was enough to pulverize the force field and the shock wave knocked Violet, Dash and Elastigirl back several meters. The mecha then advanced, ready to finish them off. But Dash, who had regained his senses, then began to run at full speed and whistled.

_"Hey, you! Go ahead, catch me if you can!"

_"Dash, no!" Elastigirl yelled seeing her son acting so recklessly.

Obsidian Fury glared at Dash and then started firing more missiles at him, but it only hit the street. Fortunately, the city's defenses, normally installed in the event of a titan attack, opened fire on the mech, but the latter retaliated and destroyed several turrets with its armament. Elastigirl took advantage of her son's diversion of attention to take Violet, half unconscious from shock, and carried her into an alley to put her out of sight of possible shots from this mechanical monster.

_"M...Mom, I..." moaned Violet, who was barely regaining consciousness.

_"Shhh, don't talk, sweetie..." her mother said tenderly. "Regain your strength. I'll be back soon, I promise."

Not liking to leave her daughter, Helen nevertheless knew that she had to act and returned to the main street, seeing that Obsidian Fury continued its wave of havoc by destroying the defenses of the city one by one with its missiles. Bob then arrived, in bad shape because of the damage suffered but was gradually regaining his stamina.

_"Honey, are you okay?" Helen asked coming to him.

_"I'm fine, but that big bastard hits hard." answered Bob. "Even more than Syndrome's robot... Where are Violet and Dash?"

_"Violet was shaken up but she's safe. And Dash... he just did his own thing, as usual."

Bob sighed and with his wife looked towards the mech, wondering how they were going to manage to stop it, but it was necessary, it was their duty as heroes. Together they began to run towards their enemy.

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