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Assemble!

During the firefight with the command center’s main batteries the Quinjet had managed to fly under the radar around the blasts and to one of the side entrances into the base. It remained cloaked until finally landing where it was made visible while hidden among a grove of trees. The main fighting finally taking place the infiltration team now had the chance to sneak inside.

Black Panther was the first to step out to make sure the coast was clear. A signal to the others was given with Rey, BB-8, the Wasp, Princess Anna, Mrs. Incredible and Violet all following the masked superhero out into the open.

Violet shivered before commenting “Wish I’d have known this place was so cold. Would’ve packed a bigger coat.” Looking to Anna she asked “Aren’t you cold?”

“My sis taught me how to not let it bother me.” She shrugged.

Despite this Panther asked Rey “How far from the entrance?”

“Just over there.” She pointed to a small structure of rocks that seemed natural but, as she would point out, were actually artificial. “Hopefully with all the fighting outside there won’t be as many guards inside.”

“It’s not guards I’m worried about.” Wasp commented. “What happens if we run into Thanos while we’re in there?”

“Then we deal with him the same way we deal with any problem.” Panther replied. “We fight with everything we have. And we don’t give up. Ever!”

Panther walked forward with a few of the others following, Mrs. Incredible commenting to Wasp “My, my. If I wasn’t married….”

“You try dealing with it every day.” Wasp retorted before both followed.

**********

When the forces of good and evil had met on the battlefield the result was a torrent of explosions, fighting and the sheer force of the collected forces meeting in a grand showdown. With Captain America at the lead the heroes ripped their way through Thanos’ army of foot soldiers and droids as they pushed on to the command center.

While the heavy fighters like Hulk, Cap, Obi-Wan Mulan and even Giant-Man took the lead those like Merida and Hawkeye, Chewbacca and Rocket, and even Star-Lord and Han Solo, used their ranged weapons to attack from behind or deal with any stragglers. And from above Iron Man lead the flyers, like Vision, Falcon, Thor and Jasmine and Aladdin, through an aerial assault on their enemies blow, calling out strays and the like.

From behind the lines General Grievous, seeing the encroaching heroes, called over his communicator {They’re ripping through out lines like paper! Send in the heavy units!}

From where he stood Boba Fett, calling to a handful of troopers and droids, ordered “You heard him! Move in the walkers and tanks!”

Even as they hurried off Loki, still watching with some of the others, commented “It won’t be enough.”

“Then perhaps we should intervene.” Maleficent suggested.

“Not yet.” The God of Mischief indicated by holding his hand up to her. “Let’s see how their ranks fare first. And once they’re worn out enough we shall make the killing blow.”

After cutting through more of their ranks Captain America signaled for everyone to halt as the sight of more forces approached. Droid tanks and flyers, Imperial AT-STs and Chitauri flying chariots were moving in on them like a swarm.

Cap then called to everyone “We’ve got some heavy firepower coming out way! Fan out! Keep them off us as a group!” As everyone moved and separated off into smaller groups Cap called over the coms “Fury, we need a better layout from your end.”

From the crashed Helicarrier Fury, from the command deck, responded “Already on it, Cap.”

Both he and Maria Hill had used the ship’s still intact sensors to create a visual holo-map of the battlefield. After a moment of scanning it had come up in full view for them and some of the other S.H.I.E.L.D. staff and agents as they now had a better means of coordinating the battle form their end.

As he and Hill overlooked everything Fury called “Stark. You got at least a dozen bogies inbound on your six.”

From where he and several others were flying Iron Man replied “Already see them, Nick. Thanks for the call.” He then told the others near him “Stick to Cap’s strategy. Spilt up their numbers and take them out!”

Everyone agreed as they split up, each of the fliers following a different target. Vision and Thor had little difficulty in dealing with their chasers while Aladdin and Jasmine, Hiro and Baymax, and Falcon had to maneuver while getting their targets in perfect range to shoot them out of the sky.

After managing to hit a few himself from the magic flying carpet Aladdin fist-pumped “Yes! Did you see that?”

“Not bad, Aladdin.” Jasmine said before managing to fire down a few herself. “But like Han would say ‘don’t get cocky’.”

“Yeah. That’s usually Tony’s job.” Falcon commented as he flew by.

As Iron Man had taken down a few more fliers he commented “Hey! What billionaire with an advanced suit of armor isn’t entitled to be a bit cocky now-and-then?”

Meanwhile, on another part of the battlefield, Mr. Incredible and Drax the destroyer had found themselves running towards a droid tank accompanied by several battle droids. As they ran they both nodded to each other before Incredible leapt into the air, crashing down hard onto the tank before it could fire. As the droids turned to fire Drax had taken their distraction as opportunity, slicing and breaking them into pieces while laughing jolly the whole time. As he lifted the tank to throw it into more droids Mr. Incredible found himself bellowing the same as his partner.

When they had dispatched their enemies the two took a moment to catch their breath, Drax giving a hardy slap to his friend’s back and saying “You show your true prowess on the battlefield, Incredible! Today we prove that we are both the destroyers of our enemies! HAHA!”

Chuckling he replied “Whatever you say, big guy.”

The sudden sound of more incoming enemies alerted the two as they could see Stormtroopers and Ultron-bots approaching with weapons ready. The two stood ready for a fight but, in the near blink of an eye, something or somethings zipped at super-speed and dismantled all of them.

Realizing it had been Quicksilver and Dash the two gave a unison “HEY!”

As their speeds the two could have easily made it to the command center but, as per Cap’s orders, they were to deal with any surrounding targets on the smaller teams. Sticking to the Captain’s plan both Quicksilver and the Dash zipped around to handle any and all of the troopers and foot soldiers of the enemy forces that tried to bottleneck or flank their friends. There were in fact several times they pass each other and gave a quick high-five in the process.

While the two continued to keep the perimeter Han and Star-Lord stuck together as they ducked from one cover to another while firing at anything that wasn’t colorfully costumed or a talking animal they knew personally.

Once the two found cover behind some rocks Han commented “Not a bad shot, kid.”

“Who you calling ‘kid’?”

“Anyone I’ve never worked with before is a kid in my eyes.” Han said while peeking out to fire a few more times. “Nothing personal.”

“None taken.” Star-Lord quickly said as he fired a few more before both ducked back again. “Count at least fifteen of them still heading for us. You got anything besides that blaster of yours?”

After fumbling around in his pockets for a moment Han pulled out a thermal detonator and asked “How good’s your throwing arm?”

Star-Lord quickly took the small explosive and chucked it towards the attackers with a loud “Catch!”

One of the battle droids had actually caught it before realizing to late what it was. A small but effective explosion destroyed the droids and sent several HYRDA agents flying through the air.

Seeing what they’d done both Han and Star-Lord smiled before seeing an incoming AT-ST walker, both saying together “Not good…”

The two were thankfully saved by the arrival of Giant-Man. He stomped through the scene and managed to out-size the small walker before kicking the legs out from under it, leaving it useless.

“Got you covered, fellas!” he gave a thumbs-up to the two before continuing on.

“Did he really call us ‘fellas’?” Han asked.

Star-Lord shrugged “Let him have the moment.” Before both continued onward.

From their spot near the command center Loki and the other villains watched as not even the heavy weaponry was slowing the heroes down. Some like Jafar seemed to be growing all the more anxious about it in fact.

After listening on his communicator the Green Goblin commented “Sounds like Octavius and the others are getting anxious, Loki. Best to let them out before they forget who they’re supposed to be fighting.”

“Agreed.” Jafar insisted. “I’m tired of waiting!”

He shot them both a poisonous look and insisted “You will not move until I say so!” He addressed all of them as he boasted “You may all have your powers but you’re still nothing but mere mortals. I am a god!”

“One who answers to a titan however.” Maleficent commented, Loki only sneering his response.

“We shall soon see about that.”

**********

Panther and his team continued on through the command center after breaking in. Using his stealth to lead them the Black Panther lead his team through the complex as silently as possible as they went deeper and deeper, turning one hallway after another.

Eventually Panther halted them as he could sense someone approaching from the other corner. He silently indicated to the others who all readied for a fight. He took a moment and waited until whoever it was came closer and closer. Finally the team all sprung and…

“Natasha!” Panther said, seeing the Black Widow.

“T’Challa!” she replied, dropping her weapon with relief.

“We surrender!” Sparrow said while cowering behind Widow. “Parley!” Once he took a moment to realize who it was he played it off and said “That was just in case. Savvy?”

Despite this the Black Widow took a moment to enjoy the familiar faces of Black Panther and Wasp. The others seemed glad enough that the friends had been reunited.

“Are you both alright?” Wasp asked.

“We’re fine.” She replied. “We’ve been trying to find a way out of here. You?”

“Trying to find the way further in.” Mrs. Incredible replied. “We need to find Thanos and those Infinity Stones.”

Thinking for a moment Violet surmised “They might all be on one of the higher levels. If Thanos is as big a show boater as you’ve said he’d want the best seat he could find for when whatever the big plan of his is supposed to start.”

“Good point.” Rey pointed out. “And I think I know a way we can the fastest route.” She turned and asked “BB-8?”

The droid beeped before wheeling himself over to a nearby computer console; everyone else in the group following. Using one of his devices the droid was able to hack the stations systems before beeping to Rey.

After hearing all he had to say she told the others “Looks like we’re not supposed to go up. We need to go down.”

“Down?” Ann asked. “Why?”

Rey only answered with “The key to Thanos’ plan! And if what BB says is true, he’s going to launch it soon.”

**********

“I want all auxiliary power routed to our sensors!” Thawn ordered as the officers tried to bring the base back up to speed. “Re-route all the cannon’s powers if need be, but I want to see what’s happening!”

As they continued one officer called “Sir! We’ve just found readings of one of our external drives being hacked.”

Hearing this the Grand Admiral made his way over to see for himself. Seeing where the hack was done he gave a low hum before standing aside and giving a new order.

“Call for any of our security teams to converge on the area.” He ordered before drawing a pistol blaster and adding “I’ll handle this personally.”

**********

Riding on Groot’s shoulders Master Yoda helped to defend the living tree from any blaster fire as he smashed his way through more and more soldiers. Eventually the little green alien jumped off himself, hoping from shoulder to shoulder while slicing the heads off several battle droids.

A few of them had seen the little Jedi Master and aimed to fire before Tinkerbell buzzed around in front of them, one droid saying {Gah! Get it away!} The droid panicked and fired all about without realizing it had taken out all the others with its misfiring. By the time it did the droid gave a low {Uh oh…} before being smashed by Groot.

The alien tree gave a triumphant “I AM GROOT!” with Tinkerbell giving the same strengthened pose to match his.

“Well done, my friends.” Yoda replied. “But the battle far from over it is. Come.”

Not too far away both Captain America and Obi-Wan were working together to cut through enemy ranks. Chitauri and HYDRA soldiers attempted to swarm the two but the proven warriors used their combined efforts in the fighting. At one point several droid flyers dried to attack them from above, Cap launching Obi-Wan from his shield into the air where he sliced them down, and even pulled one droid off his vehicle through the Force. The few that remained Cap was able to knock out of the air by throwing his shield, it whizzing in the air and knocking like a pinball until returning to him.

“I must say, Captain, your shield is pretty impressive.” Obi-Wan commented. “You wouldn’t happen to have more like it where you come from.”

“Not on your life I’m afraid.” Cap smirked. “Me and the shield we’re kind of the same: unique.”

They both heard over coms as Fury warned “Heads up, Cap. Looks like you’ve got bigger problems coming your way.”

After both heard this they looked towards the horizon to see what Fury was warning them about. Several Imperial AT-AT walkers were stomping their way towards the heroes along with HYDRA-Bot Walkers and more droid army tanks.

Seeing this Obi-Wan gave a quick “Oh I have a bad feeling about this.”

Cap soon called “Going to need some muscle over here, pronto!”

Hearing this for himself the Hulk, with Stitch still riding on his back, leapt through the air, right over where Cap and Obi-Wan stood, before eventually reaching where the walkers and bots were. He roared as they aimed their weapons and opened fire, the great, green giant taking the brunt of it while little Stitch clung to his back. Dust and smoke and snow bellowed about while it seemed as though both were destroyed by the blasts.

When the smoke cleared the pilots of the AT-ATs and HYDRA-Bots were shocked to see the Hulk drop his arms after shielding himself. He huffed a smirk before Stitch climbed from his back to his shoulder, jumping into the Hulk’s open hand and giving a thumbs up.

Hulk nodded and pitched Stitch like a baseball towards the HYDRA-Bot, the little alien screaming “ALOHA!”

He crashed through one of the eye-windows of the mech-bot before causing havoc inside. He bounched around and chewed wires, ripping out anything he could see, and avoided being shot by any HYDRA soldiers inside.

The Hulk meanwhile had jumped up onto the AT-AT’s head after it failed to fire at him again. Peering in through the window he could see the frightened pilots as they tried to run, he bashing into the side of the walker’s head with his bare fists pounding more and more until it all eventually dropped.

By the time both walkers fell Hulk and Stitch reunited, the little alien exclaiming “Stitch SMASH!” with Hulk nodding before picking him up to leap off and deal with more foes.

The two had jumped over the area where Ahsoka and Mulan fought near back-to-back, using their lightsabers to block and bounce blaster attacks from surrounding enemies. The two young warriors proved their worth as their weapons clashed against their enemy’s attacks before moving in and slicing them down together.

With all of them displaced the two took a moment to catch their breath before Mulan asked “You alright?”

“Never better.” Ahsoka smirked before asking “You?”

With a small shrug Mulan teased “I sort of felt I was doing a lot of the work back there.”

To their surprise a destroyer droid had rolled into view and sprung to attack before Gamora, coming up from behind, and stabbing it through the back. The droid felt to pieces as she stepped away, twirling her dagger in her hand with a smirk.

“Yeah. ALL the work.” She coyly replied.

The three women warriors soon heard the approach of two Imperial Walkers. The two towering AT-AT’s stomped into view and aimed their weapons at the trio.

“You wouldn’t happen to have a bigger knife, huh?” Ahsoka frantically joked as she and the others tried to move out of the way.

Before the AT-AT fired something else had fired at it. A large rocket fire had struck the walker on the side of the head, knocking it off balance. The others, including the other AT-AT, had looked to who or what had fired the weapon. Standing nearby was Rocket with Chewbacca, the two having fired a supped-up mini-cannon Rocket had designed.

Chewie growled something as the AT-AT recovered, Rocket responding “Yeah, I noticed! But I wasn’t trying to blow it up. I just wanted to distract it!”

Not too far from the scene a roar of thunder followed as Thor skyrocketed through the air towards the AT-ATs. Like one of his own bolts of lightning he crashed into the side of one before tearing out through the other. As it fell the god of thunder swung his hammer and threw it into the head of the other AT-AT making it explode on contact.

When Mjolnir returned to his hand Thor triumphantly declared “Now THIS shall be a battle remembered throughout the ages!”

Seeing as more units fell Grievous called again to the others {Our forces will not last much longer! Send reinforcements now!}

Further back near the command center the villains now looked to Loki who, after seeing his half-brother claim another victory, sighed and responded “Very well. Send the rest.”

**********

From his chamber Thanos was forced to watch the battle from the only window in the room. Without the use of his monitors he was not fully clear on the movements of the heroes, just as they seemed to have planned. Only Darth Vader and the Grandmaster remained by his side as he saw the combined efforts of the heroes sweeping through his forces.

To himself Darth Vader sensed familiar presences through the Force. Unfelt for years for him and yet apparent. He was not sure if this was another act of the imbalances caused by joining the realities together but with all he had seen today there was a chance that indeed they were here, on the Starkiller base. And if they were he would meet them and finish what was started so long ago.

Meanwhile the Grandmaster had commented “Seems the mortals are far more stalwart than you anticipated, Thanos. Perhaps you should reconsider your plans while you have the chance to surrender.”

Thanos shot the Grandmaster a piercing look that silenced him, saying “Surrender is never my stratagem.” He then made his way over to the Infinity Gauntlet, picking it up and saying “Vader. Tell the men to ready the device. These ‘heroes’ will see what they’ve come to fail to destroy. Ready the Infinity Cannon.”