Month: March 2015

JLD (8): John Constantine, Deadman, Swamp Thing, Zatanna, Madame Xanadu

Midnight Sons (9): Ghost Rider (Ketch), Morbius,  Blade, Hellstrom, Jennifer Kale

“Oy!” John Constantine is nothing if not vocal, “Get a load of these gits!” He gestures to his supernaturally charged foes. “A Demon, couple of, I dunno, Vampires maybe? Another demon and some bird?”

“You mastery over the obvious is once again astounding, John.” Zatanna quips back.

“Looks like they picked this lot just for us!” He turns to Swamp Thing and offers the cunning strategy while lighting a cigarette, “Well, get on in then!”

Hellstrom noticing the lumbering Swamp Thing take to walking, rallies his troops, “Midnight Sons, we’re facing…” he’s cut off…

“I think we know what to do” Jennifer Kale prompts. Her eyes roll back in her head and each of her four companions are briefly engulfed in flames. As the subside, each of the monsters feels the effects of the buff. “That should be more than enough to deal with them.”

Blade and Morbius take off to fight the Swamp Thing. They meet halfway. Morbius launches into the air and bits into Swamp Thing’s neck. He pulls out a mouthful of leafy green and spits it out, “That’s more than a bit disappointing, but not entirely unexpected.

“Maybe we just need to trim these hedges,” Blade cooly offers, drawing his sword, he begins hacking away at the foliage of Swamp Thing. Various leaves, sticks, and more fall, an arm, a large chunk of chest, a leg, and the Swamp Thing falls. Blade swipes down disconnecting the head from the body. “What else they got?” He offers to Morbius.

“Not on my watch!” Constantine, peaking to himself while watching his reluctant friend cut down to size. As he begins fiddling inside his jacket, muttering to himself, “vampires, vampires, vampires…”

“How about a little help?” Zatanna offer, “Nedoow Sekats”. And wooden stakes materialize in each of their hands.

Madame Xanadu closes her eyes to read her opponents, “The one with a pentagram on his chest. He’s… he’s the Son of Satan!?”

“Not that I know of,” Constantine answers. He reaches into his pocket and pull out a knife and starts carving things on the wooden stake Zatanna produced.

“Not the best time for arts and crafts John.” Zatanna teases

“Never not a good time love,” Constantine smiles and continues to carve. “Now be a dear an’ keep these sods off a me while I work.”

“The Hellspawn may be the most powerful, but the witch is the most dangerous!” Xanadu prophecies.

“Don’t the witch cast her spells, I’m on it!” Deadman floats through the stadium, over the stalking vampires on their way to attack the spellcasters and jumps into the body of Jennifer Kale.

“Nice try ghost, but you’re not fooling anyone.” Damian Hellstrom sees straight through Boston Brand’s usual shenanigans and fire a blast from his trident at his teammate. The Hellfire pushes Deadman out and reveals his presence to Kale.

“How DARE YOU!” Kale screams, furious that the ghost would even attempt to posses her. She puts her hands together and fires a blast at Deadman. He stops moving instantly and falls to the ground, paralysed. “Good luck dealing with that.” She begins chanting and waving her arms.

Across the field, Blade and Morbius reach their targets, Blade, sword at the ready strikes out at Zatanna,

“DROWS!” shouts and a weapon appears to defend herself, “KCATTA!” The sword starts battling the vampire, mid air, on her behalf. While concentrating on Blade, she’s slightly distracted as Morbius movs in, fangs at the ready.

“Not so fast, fiend!” Madame Xanadu lifts Morbius from the very spot he’s standing and tosses him back.

“It seems you don’t know who you’re dealing with here.” Morbius pushed through the telekinesis and flies at the clairvoyant.

“It seems you are far more short sighted than I.” Madame Xanadu calmly reassures herself as an army of tiny Swamp Things comes roaring back from the center of the battlefield. One for each chunk sliced, in a wave of green, the engulf Morbius.

“Wooden stake for a vampire.” Swamp Thing mumbles, and Morbius is pushed out of a fully constituted Swamp Monster with a wooden stake driven through his heart.

“Not quite.” Morbius coughs as he slides off of the stake.

At the same moment Blade is battling with three conjured weapons when Zatanna sneaks around and stabs him in the heart. Blade falls to his knees and twirls onto his back. As Zatanna bends to inspect her foe she’s greeted with an unfortunate suprise.

“Me neither lady.” Blade uses the moment of surprise to stab Zatanna in the belly. She falls next to Blade and as she begins to whisper a healing spell, Blade rolls out and covers her mouth. “Not this time witch”.

Swamp Thing, though slightly disheartened that his attack didn’t deal final blows, undeterred smacks both vampires across the stadium, to reach down and help Zatanna.

“No bother you, I need you to take out their spellcaster, she’s the only one that can undo my spell, not innit she?” Constantine barks.

Sensing his unease with the plan, Madame Xanadu reassures him, “He’s right, go!”

Damian Hellstrom sees the plant elemental skulking forward and blasts him with Hellfire. “Really, sending a plant to fight fire?” Not the best idea you’ve ever had, now is it?

Swamp Thing presses on through the flames, Hellstrom blasts out again, and again, the Swamp Thing a steaming inferno that will not quit. He reaches his swampy fingers out and grabs hold of Hellstrom, and reaches out for Kale.

“Oh no you don’t!” Hellstrom pushes into the swamp monster, forcing him back. Swamp Thing extends the reach, new, lush plant growth protruding from his finger, Hellstrom hacks the down from Swamp Things grasp, but they just keep coming.

Jennifer Kale cackles with glee, “All finished, why use a bunch of different spells, when I can let these brutes fight it out and take you all out with one!” She boasts. An orange rune appears in front of her, glowing in the sky. Four other appear around it, and lines connect them each.

“My thoughts exactly!” Constantine shouts as he lobs his finely carved stake at the into Swamp Thing’s back. Swamp Thing’s head turns to address the oddity, “Four more you git!” And with a soft nod, Swamp Thing produces five identical stakes, each with the exact spells inlaid. He tosses Hellstrom aside and places one stake in each of Kale’s floating Runes.

“No… no… you… you can’t!” Kale frantically tries stopping her spell, but it’s too late. There’s an explosion of orange Hellfire and the five members of the Midnight Sons are gone.

“Didn’t know what they were gonna try, but knew I’d be able to make it backfire on ‘em.” Constantine takes a draw from his cigarette and coughs.

WINNER: Justice League Dark

Unity (4): Eternal Warrior, Ninjak, Livewire, Zephyr, X-O Manowar, Bloodshot

Alpha Flight (13): Guardian, Puck, Sasquatch, Aurora, Northstar

The electric flicker of the surrounding dome licks off the gleaming blade just over the shoulder of the Eternal Warrior. He’s seen battles. He glances over at his oldest friend, Aric of Dacia, who is wearing the magnificent X-O Manowar armor. They nod in agreement, and without saying a word, rush towards their opponents. Ninjak, noticing the trend, takes off immediately after while livewire takes after him. Bloodshot pulls out a rather large assault rifle, and troops along. Zephyr floats into the air, scrunches her face and dashes in as well.

The Maple clad Guardian floats above his team, looks down, and takes off to meet his foes. Puck cartwheels and after him, humming the tune to, “Flight of the Valkyries”. Sasquatch lumbers after, and Northstar and Aurora race out from the back.

The speed of the Beaubier twins reach the front lines first, coming together, seemingly out of nowhere in front of the Eternal Warrior, Ninjak, and Bloodshot. With a smug laugh of arrogance, the three chuckle as Ninjak quips, “Brought no weapons to the fight, eh? Well, cheers to you!” And pulls his swords.

Bloodshot wastes no time stepping in front of his companions and firing, full auto, at the two elf like creatures. Aurora takes off, plucking each individual bullet from the air, as if time stood still. Her brother, taking the same initiative, run up, pulls the gun from Bloodshot’s hands, and disassembles it. He continues on to take Ninjak’s swords, and the Eternal Warrior’s ax. In a moment, the two are standing in front of Unity’s soldiers, Northstar holding two swords, Aurora holding an ax, and stepping over a pile of gun pieces.

“Well, well, good on you…” Ninjak winces, just a fraction of an inch, and the swords in Northstar’s hands let off a control blast. Northstar drops them suddenly and falls in pain. Ninjak uses the opportunity to fly high into the air and kick out at the sister. Being a speedster, she recognizes the gambit and grabs her brother, creating a blinding flash of light, and the two disappear.

The distraction is perfect timing for the rest of Alpha flight to catch up, used to working as a unit, Sasquatch and Puck use the opening to attack. Puck balls up and takes to the air, knocking over the blinded Eternal Warrior, while Sasquatch reaches out and swats Bloodshot clear across the arena. As a followup, he backswings towards Ninjak, who surprisingly, flips over the shaggy arm. Believing it luck, Sasquatch reaches down again to grab the ninja, this time, Ninjak duck under the hairy fist. Puck flips off a second attack of the Eternal Warrior and swing around to help his friend. Ninjak jumps in air and corkscrews around Puck’s leaping strike. While they’re both in air, Ninjak drops a couple of pellets from his belt and a small explosion shoots Puck sideways.

“Got plenty of senses mate, can’t always rely on just one!” Ninjak taunts as he kicks Sasquatch in the solar plexus. Landing over the two Canadians, Ninjak walks back, and picks up his swords.

Oblivious to the battle on ground, X-O sees a similar foe coming at him in Red and White. He fires out of his wrists green plasma blasts. Guardian ducks in and out of the fire approaching the alien armor, avoiding each blast with a skill honed through years of protecting his country. As they reach one another, Guardian reaches through X-O’s outstretched arms and punches him in the face. It has little effect. X-O’s response is a little bit more intimidating, as out thin air, an energy sword materializes in his hands. He slashes toward Guardian. The force field surrounding the Guardian armor deflects the blow, but there’s a spark electric that immediately pulls the attention of the other 8 combatants, and the force of the attacks throws the Alpha Flight leader to the ground.

Using the temporary distraction, Bloodshot uses the moment to get back into the fray, finding the two that fled after the initial blinding light. Retina’s fully healed, his nanites were easily able to quickly scan the arena and  and runs around, flanking the speedsters, to avoid them jumping away again. Sneaking behind them, he grabs a recovering Northstar around the waits and pulls back, smashing him on the ground. Aurora, angrily responds. Faster than anyone Bloodshot has ever seen she reaches out and grabs grabs him around the chest and takes flight. Bloodshot did not know that she possessed this power, and is temporarily confuses as to what to do, he struggles, fight through the grip and begins to fall. Aurora, not willing to give up her prey, pushes down as fast as she can, reaching mach 8 in only a few meters, and facilitates the descent into the ground. The thunderclap as she breaks the sound barrier is instantaneously heard with the nearly concurrent impact. Bloodshot’s body lay still on the ground, a pile of contorted limbs.

Standing up, and breathing heavily with rage and still slightly deafened by the sound she fails to notice the Eternal Warrior charging towards her bellowing, “That’s may favorite ax!”. He punched her in the back of the head, causing her to stumble forward, but not fall. His follow through is flawless, making one purposeful step and striking again, punching into Aurora’s kidney, and spinning her around to face front. Gilad’s eternal training does not allow him to let up the advantage, and he pushes a straight jab driving his left fist into Aurora’s chin, forcing her head down, which flows, almost beautifully, into a hard right uppercut, taking his raven haired dance partner off of her feet, and landing her on her back. The Eternal Warrior walks to his ax, picks it up and turns to finish the job he startled as the brother, now fully recovered, stops him mid stride.

Startled for a moment, the Eternal Warrior slashes down at Northstar, who sidesteps the attack, but stays square with the warrior. An attack, dodge, attack, dodge, again and again, is just enough to keep the Eternal Warrior occupied as Puck tumbles into the fray bouncing off the Eternal Warrior. He calls out to his teammate, “Swapsies?” and gestures to the oncoming Ninjak.

“Oh, yes, I owe this one.” Northstar sprints towards his challenger. Ninjak has dealt with speed before, none quite this fast though, and though his reaction time and anticipation are among the best that the world has ever seen, there’s not much that he can do in the short distance between himself and the oncoming speedster. Faster than a blink, Northstar launches into Ninjak, punching his gut, his chest, his side, his gut again, and then throwing him against the side of the arena. Ninjak’s training takes over completely and he pulls three shuriken and launches them to his aggressor. Northstar deftly avoids the stars however the amusement of it occupies him enough to miss the trip wire that Ninjak set up in the ground. As Northstar approaches, his shins come to a painful halt, launching him to the ground at Ninjak’s feet.

WINNER: Alpha Flight

Champions (8): Ms. Marvel, Hulk (Totally Awesome), Vision (Viv), Spider-Man (Miles), Nova

Red Hood and the Outlaws (9): Red Hood, Artemis, Bizarro, Arsenal, Starfire

The Red Hood stands in front of his his peculiar companions, pulls out twin MACs, and commands “Well, I guess we know what to do here.” He raises his arms, and starts running and shooting.

Amadeus Cho, the Totally Awesome Hulk, swoops in front of the oncoming projectiles, shielding his team. As the bullets bounce off his chest. He bends down and picks up one of the bullets, “Rubber?”

Ms Marvel, surprised by the initial aggression, calls out to her compatriots, “That’s what this is!?! We’re just going to shoot first and ask questions later? FINE… EMBIGGEN!” As she grows her legs taller and fists larger, she reaches out and begins smashing the man with the guns.

Bizarro leaps into the fray seeing his new friend, the Red Hood buried under a fist. “YOU NO AM HURT RED HE!” he shouts, lifting the fist and throwing its owner across the coliseum. He looks up to engage the remainder of the team to find himself eating a faceful of webbing.

Spider-Man, trying to pull the behemoth in a red cape towards him, ends up launching himself towards the other team. Ever the improvist, he chatters, “Alley Oop!” and swings into Red Hood’s chest kicking the man off his feet.

As Spider-Man starts swinging around the monster for another pass, his webbing is cut short by Artemis’s ax. She stands ready to strike again as Spider-Man somersaults to his feet. As the ax come down, he leaps out of the way, though strangely, his Spider-Sense doesn’t stop buzzing. As he reaches the apex of his bound, WHABAM! He’s pelted with an energy blast, emanating from Starfire, floating just above. As he reaches the ground with a soft thud, he’s blasted again.

Starfire pulls up for a third blast when she’s speared by the human rocket, Nova exclaiming, “That’s my friend, lady!” Starfire punches down with both fists to shake her assailant. The force is much greater than Nova anticipated. His blast fails and he falls begins falling, unprotected to the ground.

Halfway through the decent, Viv Visions swoops in to grab her new compatriot to gently set him on the ground. As she lowers her altitude, she shares with her team, “I have nothing in my databanks in regards to any of these…” PAFF She’s cut short by a blast produced by an exploding arrow. Arsenal fires another towards the android and she phases out of the way. Her evasion backfires somewhat, as she drops Nova. Amid the hail of oncoming arrows, she loses track of her imperilled and he plummets to the the ground.  Determined, Vision  jets towards the archer and punches him square in the jaw. Before she can scan Arsenal to determine the efficacy of her attack she’s pushed back by a torrent of fire.

Using his fire breath to escape Spider-Man’s webbing, Bizzaro sees Artemis sparring with the Hulk. With lightning speed he strikes, only to whiff as she zips past, around him. Stumbling past his target, Bizarro is unprepared for the force of the titanic green fist of the Hulk.

As Bizarro is reeling back, Artemis charges in and slashes hard into the Hulk’s chest. Astonished that the weapon was able to push through his durable skin, Hulk whimpers, snarls, and lashes out. Artemis jumps over the first fist, sidesteps the second, has the third bounce off her ax, and as she tries to retaliate, notices the ax stops, mid swing. The Hulk, holding the handle, pulls its bearer towards him and violently flings her off.

Gloating his immediate victory, the Hulk fails to notice as Starfire flies overhead. Lifting the musclebound mammoth and tossing him into the air,  she begins an incredible amount of energy. The blasts, much larger and stronger than those she used earlier, continue to increase their intensity. As the Hulk lands, with a loud, “KRA-THOOM” she blasts directly into the crater with all her might. Hulk lifts his head and groans before his it falls. His eyes roll back in his head, and close. Falling gracefully behind him, and landing just beside, is an exhausted and power spent Starfire.

Leaping over the fallen Starfire and Hulk, Red Hood resumes fire upon Ms. Marvel. Even with her elasticity and enbiggened form, the bullets hurt. She bashes down at him with her left fist. “Fool me once,” Red Hood whispers to himself as he dodges the attack. Ms. Marvel strikes down with her other hand, the Red Hood evades the attack once more. Ms. Marvel brings down the left again, and as Red Hood sees the hand coming down, he springs off of rising right thumb and up and flips in air to land a kick square on her nose. As She’s stumbling back, Bizarro soars in and grabs her by the back of her collar, flying her into the, pillowy side of the stadium. Despite the cloudy substance, whatever the force that keeps them in the stadium knocked her out.

Rushing to Ms. Marvel’s aid, Vision’s daughter glides over and catches the eye of Bizarro. Viv pauses for moment to process the speed and strength shown by the crystalline faced man. As she confirms Ms. Marvel’s vitals are still functioning with a quick scan and just as Bizarro takes off after her, Viv wheels around back towards the rest of the fray. Bizarro is far too speedy for Viv to outrun, and precisely as she calculated, he catches up to her just before she can get to the remainder of the battle. Viv’s battlefield observation and analysis, showed that this creature thinks little about what is behind his target and he barrels, careening through the phased form of a Vision, accidentally landing an intense blow onto his teammate, Artemis.

The dust of impact settles with Spider-Man and Vision side by side, to watch Red Hood saunter up next to and enraged Bizarro. Bizarro take off after the Vision again. As the two dart around the stadium, Bizarro mindlessly trying to catch the inanimate robot, Red Hood opens fire on Spider-Man. He dodges, naturally, and spins into an attack of his own. Much to his surprise, the Red Hood is able to step back and avoid the kick. Even with his spider speed, strength, and spider sense, he finds it difficult to land one solid strike. The combat training and willpower of his opponent being too much to overcome, he fires a webline up to Bizarro and take off. It might not do much good, but at least he’s a foe that can be punched.

WINNER: Red Hood and the Outlaws

GotG (8): Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot

Detective Comics (9): Batwoman, Orphan, Spoiler, Clayface, Batwing

The battle preparation of Kate Kane is immediately evident as she checks her teammates. Looking across the battlefield, she observes what appear to be… aliens, a tree, a shampoo model, and… a raccoon with a gun? This unit has faced monsters before, it wasn’t easy, but together, there’s few problems that they haven’t been able to overcome.

It’s Batwing who first breaks the awkward silence, “So, how we doing this?”

Batwoman thinks with a quickness and tactical genius that can only come from years of training and study. She reflects on all her years of combat and purses out, “Clayface, you take the tree, make some axes maybe, cut it down. Orphan and Spoiler, you’re on the two green ones, be careful, they look tough and we don’t know their capabilities. Try to stay on the defensive until you’ve got them figured out. Batwing, you…” She’s cut off.

“I’ll take the normal looking dude, I’m not about to fight a raccoon, watch out for his gun?!” He jets off to battle.

Meanwhile, Star-Lord stares down quizzically as the other team has their meeting. “You know, the redhead is kind of hot, I think, she’s kind of far away, maybe I should go after her?” he jogs off towards his objective.

Drax screams, “BATTLE!” and pulls out two alarmingly large knives. And takes off, full sprint.

Groot mumbles, “I am Groot.” and picks up the Rocket, placing him on his shoulder as he lumbers into the fray.

Gamora rolls her eyes and mutters to herself, “how did I get mixed up in all of this?” as she chases after her cohorts, most assuredly knowing that she’ll be saving at least one of them in a very short manner of time.

The ten clash in the middle of the arena full fury. Batwing reaches his target first, flying two fists first at Star-Lord’s abdomen. Just before landing his attack, Groot extends his long wooden arms to swat Batwing away. Batwing adjusts and turns up, which is perfect for Rocket. He’s been working with Groot long enough to know how this end. He takes aim at the giant metal bat and get ready to shoot.

PTANG! A red, metal bat flies into Rocket’s tiny Raccoon hands and he drops his gun.

“Oh, HELL NO!” Rocket dives off of his timbered friend to attack and jumps onto Batwoman’s face. “Take this! And this! And THAT!” His tiny fists antagonizing.

“Get off me raccoon!” Batwoman grabs the alien and flings him.

“WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME!?!” Rocket pounces again, but Batwoman is slightly less surprised this time. She’s able to sidestep the lunge, but underestimates the recovery speed, and Rocket makes a sharp turn from the ground to scurry up Batwoman.

As Batwoman is frantically trying to fight the cosmic rodent, Clayface arrives at Groot, stops and forms up giant axes to chop down Groot. Groot reaches out to stop the blades, his wooden finger cracking as axes come down. Clayface roars and turns one arm into a spiked wrecking ball. He smashes into center mass and Groot get knocked down.

“Hey! That tree’s a friend of mine!” Star-Lord whips out his element guns and sets to fire. The flames erupt onto Clayface, forcing him to retreat a step in retaliation.

Drax arrives a moment after screaming, “Mine too!” He drives his knives into Clayface’s chest. The knives get sucked in, then forearms, up to his shoulder’s, and Drax become fully engulfed within Clayface.

“Great! Half our work is done!” Spoiler calls to Orphan. “Want to double up on the other green one?”

Not that there would have been a response, but Gamora doesn’t leave it open for on anyway, “One of you, two of you, all five of you. It doesn’t matter. I’m the Most Dangerous Woman in the Universe.” She draws a sword and stabs at Spoiler.

Orphan is able to kick the blade away inches away from it’s target and coldly replies, “No.” She strikes out at Gamora testing her abilities. Gamora is able to counter ever blow. Spoiler decides that she needs to tip the scales and fires her grappling gun. The cable ensnares Gamora for the briefest of moments, but it’s an eternity to Orphan. She makes the most of the opening and kicks the center of gamora’s chest. A normal person would buckle over, unable to breath. If she’s kicked a little bit harder, a normal person would never be able to breath again. Gamora staggers back slightly, cuts through the cable with her sword, and charges. Cassandra’s lips form the faintest of smiles as she realizes this is a foe with whom she does not have to hold back.

Seeing her friend dive into a frenzy, Spoiler decides to turn her attention elsewhere. She scans the battle and see Clayface recoiling from fire while looking… like he ate something funny? And she sees they regular guy holding the flame thrower. She springs into action, casting a line off of the tree person as it picks itself up and swings a kick into Star-Lord. The attack forces him several feet back and he lands on his side.

“Flamethrowers? Not very original!” Stephanie Brown taunts as she digs through her utility belt for the perfect follow up weapon.

“Element Gun!” Star Lord retorts, setting his weapons to wind and blowing her away. He rolls over and pops up. He dashes back towards Clayface when Batwoman, still frantically engaged in a bizarre mele with Rocket stumbles into him. Knocking him over again. “Quit screwing around Rocket, let’s get Drax out of that mud monster!” He pulls Rocket off of Batwoman.

“Thanks,” she smiles, “but I don’t need your help.” She punches Peter Quill in the head and drops like a rock. She turns her attention back to Rocket but he’s wandered off, nowhere to be found. She see Batwing swooping in up ahead and Bat-Ropes to him, landing on top of Groot. “Let’s see what we can do here.” She pulls a couple of Bat-Knuckles out of her belt and goes to town trying to damage his barky exterior while dodging around his attempts to defend himself while Batwing flies in and out doing the same.

Forgoing his personal vendetta against Batwoman, and bereft his own gun, Rocket grabs the two Element Guns and cranks the setting, “Let’s give this a shot” He blasts out water onto Clayface.

Clayface laughs at first, “That tickles!” But his snicker soon turns to concern. “Hey Cut that out!”

“Shuddup and MAKE ME!” Rocket doubles down, his plan seeming to work. Clayface can only take on so much of the water, unable to escape it, he washes out into a pile of mud on the ground.

As the mud heap begins to dwindle, Clayface’s ability to hold form dwindling, Drax bursts through, exploding the last vestiges of Clayface’s human appearance. He sees the two attacking Groot, and he spring into to action. “The tree is under MY protection!”

“I don’t think he needs it!” Batwing frantically offers, just moments before Groot is able to reach up and grab him. Groot throws the armor to the ground and stomps over him. His feet begin to grown around, and then into the dirt. Batwing is trapped under the weight of a tree, with the pressure of his root system pulling down. It takes moments for his mechanical systems to fail and leave him trapped underneath.

Noticing the new threat, Batwoman hops off and takes the fight to Drax. After a few punches and kicks she can’t help but say aloud, “You’re stronger than Bane.”

“I don’t know who Bane is, but I assure you, he could not defeat me.”

“I said you’re stronger, and you don’t have to worry about him defeating you, you have to worry about ME.” She Bat-Rops his feet and pulls him down.

She throws an adhesive bomb down on his chest, SPLURCH, a thick glue covers his torso and Batwoman takes off after the captor of Batwing.

She’s intercepted halfway there by her old friend, Rocket. “You thought I was just gonna give up on us? I thought we had something special! Hahaha!” he taunts just before firing the element gun’s “Earth” feature all around her, encasing her in a closed off, rocky prison.

A quick scan allows him to find Gamora, holding off both Spoiler and Orphan. Given time, who knows how it’d end up, but after Rocket frees Drax and the two join the fight, they’re just too much to handle, even for our world’s greatest fighter.

WINNER: Guardians of the Galaxy

Avengers (1): Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Vision, Wasp

Freedom Fighters (16): Uncle Sam, Doll Man, Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, The Ray

Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters peer of to their colorfully clad rivals. Uncle Sam addresses his team, “I realize that one may look like he’s on our side, but for all we know, he’s secretly been a Nazi since the 1940’s and he’s been kind of laying low and sabotaged the Nazi’s in the 40’s so that he could gain the trust of the superheros from his Earth and now that it’s been, what, almost 75 years now, and no, NOW, he’s deciding that in like, a month or two, he’s going to take over the country!”

The rest of the Freedom fighters stare at him, confused, until from the lowest of heights, Dollman pipes up, “That might be the single dumbest thing that I’ve ever heard, but I don’t care, I guess, let’s go win the fight!” Turning to face his opponents he realizes that they maybe spent too much time elaborating on a dumb idea, as Iron Man has already taken to the skies and has begun pelting the Freedom Fighters with repulsor blasts.

The first blast hits Dollman’s  tiny frame square in the chest. As he’s rocketed off, a cocky Tony Stark gloats, “targeting computer, little man!”

The Ray, avenging his friend, swings his arms towards the flying armor and prepares to strike when suddenly, out of nowhere, he’s zapped by the astonishing Wasp! He turns to find his foe and is zapped again, and again, and again! Twirling around, looking for his agressor, he’s left defenseless as an Arrow flies in and fells him.

The Human Bomb friends with Dollman for years, uses his keen sight to spot the wasp and grab hold of her mid air with his right hand. As he shakes off the glove of his left to use his kinetic powers, the Vision swoops in, grabs the Wasp, and punches the Human Bomb. knocking him out cold.

The Wasp, released from Vision’s grip, angles high and grows to full size as she get the drop on Phantom Lady. Phantom Lady activates her Black Light Bands and turns herself invisible and intangible. Standing targetless, the Wasp shrinks back down to bug size and takes a lap around the arena to check the other fallen Freedom Fighters and make sure they’re down for the count.

Using her advantage to get close, Phantom Lady streaks across the stadium to the archer that shot the Ray. She looks up into the sky and positions herself just right. She turns visible and whistles at Hawkeye. On instinct he notches and arrow and lets it fly. The shaft passes straight through the phantom form and finds itself bouncing off the back of Iron Man’s armor. Phantom Lady winks at the confused Hawkeye and steps down on his toe, as he naturally bends over, she hits him hard with an uppercut. “Well, at least we got one of them.” she sighs, and goes to investigate the armor that she’s going to have to try to put down.

Iron Man’s sensors pick up more than just the visible light spectrum, and his stealthy adversary does not go quite as unnoticed as she’d hoped for. Iron Man blasts out a repulsor, it moves unaffected though its target, another, and another, to no avail. Preoccupied with the spectral beauty, he misses Uncle Sam, having grown to a height reaching the flying Avenger. Rolling up his titanic sleeves, he swats Iron Man out of the sky and onto the ground.

Captain America jumps onto the mammoth, “I see the stars and stripes, but I’ve seen others hide behind them before too!” Uncle Sam grows even larger, even more powerful, and punches down. Cap takes the brunt of the attack with his shield, and rolls up the Uncle Sam’s wrist to start climbing the giant. Cap socks him in the face and the two tumble back, landing on old shellhead, who had just started to get up. Phantom Lady sees the collision and giggles, “I guess we’ve got too!” and she starts rushing towards Captain America, to defend her field leader.

The Vision swoops in to intercept, but Phantom Lady phases to rush through. She’s stunned as she jams into the robot at full speed and falls at an immediate halt.

“You are not the only one with density manipulating powers, and phase shifting. Though I am the only one who can read a frequency and match it. A noble effort.  And with a twist he takes after Captain Rogers, who’s battling back and forth in a star spangled repartee with Uncle Sam.

Uncle Sam is too strong, and somehow, only getting stronger with each of Captain America’s attacks. Captain America is too fast, and his shield is too tough for Uncle Sam to damage his adversary at all. The Wasp watches in awe for just a moment until she see the Vision float into view attack Uncle Sam at eye level, and Iron Man recouped to starts shooting repulsors at his midsection, while Cap jumps and attacks the legs. The Wasp swoops in and starts shocking Uncle Sam at his core. And while he’s fueled by Captain America’s resolve, he’s getting nothing from the Vision and little from the Wasp, with even less from Iron Man and eventually he starts to shrink until he’s back to his normal human height, taking punches from three directions. Cap connects with a vicious hay-maker and Uncle Sam falls. Softly smiling and thinking to himself, “Go get ‘em son, you’ve earned it.”

WINNER: Avengers