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Twists and Turns

While Thanos continued to writh on the ground Loki laughed “So much for being the universes’ Supreme Being, eh, Thanos?”

“You…dare….” THanos struggled.

“Oh yes. I dare! You think I’m going to allow you to risk destroying everything? Not when I’ve not had the chance to rule it for myself at least.” Loki smirked as he walked over, towering over the pained Thanos and feeling a larger sense of godhood in the process. “That’s why I left that little spell laced within your gauntlet. I knew I’d have no better opportunity than now to-EEHH!”

Loki had been reaching down for the Infinity Gauntlet to take from Thanos’ hand. He was stopped however and had a look of shock on his face when a red lightsaber had pierced into him from behind. He looked down at it before Darth Vader pushed him off, the god of mischief falling to the ground dead. By then the spell had worn off and Thanos, quick to recover, got back to his feet and gave a satisfied look to the now dead Loki.

“Well done, Vader.” The titan addressed the Sith Lord. “I pleases me to see you understand where loyalties lie.”

“Of course, Master Thanos.” Vader bowed with his head.

With everything out of the way Thanos insisted “Now come with me. We won’t have much time before the fools arrive. Time to unleash the full power this battle station and the Infinity Stones can display. And then it will all be mine one way or another.”

As the two exited the Grandmaster began to stir. He was beaten and bruised but alive. He struggled to stand only to fall, fearing what would come next for the whole of existence.

**********

With the arrival of Doctor Strange and his reinforcements the battle soon turned to the heroes’ favor. While the battles still raged now with more help the heroes now had what they needed to help turn the tide.

The Sorcerer Supreme aided Thor in battle the dragonized Maleficent just as she was about to bit the thunder god’s head off. His and Thor’s combined magic was enough to overpower the sorceress and eventually evaporate her to nothing but dust.

“I thought fighting monsters was your specialty.” Strange pointed out.

With a slightly annoyed and winded sigh Thor replied “It’s been a long day.”

Doc Ock had finally pinned Spider-Man down with three of his limbs keeping him still. A fourth had sharpened its claws and was ready to skewer the wall-crawler through the chest. Thankfully the familiar cry of “Friend Rescue Attack!” had caught both of their ears before Fred and the other members of the Big Hero 6, minus Hiro and Baymax, rushed into the scene and fought off the mad professor. Wasabi had cut off two of Ock’s mechanical limbs before GoGo zipped and spun around him to keep him distracted long enough for Honey Lemon to make her own stick-bomb concoction, throwing it at Ock and trapping him in a goo encasement.

Spidey, relieved to see them all, exclaimed “You guys are alright! I thought you were dead.”

“Not for lack of trying.” GoGo bluntly quipped.

“Dude, you would not believe half of what we saw on our little trip.” Fred insisted.

“We’re on a station the size of a planet, fighting a titan, giants, robots and witches who turn into dragons. What’s so hard to believe?” Spidey retorted.

While Fred agreed Wasabi asked “Where’s Hiro?”

As Spider-Man was about to answer the familiar cackle of the Green Goblin made everyone look to see him zooming in from above. Spidey told everyone to clear the area as he fired down upon them with his glider’s weapons, his main target being his web-slinging nemesis. On Spidey’s word the Big Hero 6 members scattered to help elsewhere while he settled the Goblin himself.

Boba Fett finally cornered Star-Lord and Han Solo. He fired his jetpack missile and flushed the two out from their safe spot behind a boulder. When he zipped down he delivered a hard kick to Star-Lord, knocking him out, before landing his foot right on Solo’s chest. His blaster was aimed right between his eyes as he looked down on his target.

“No more running, Solo. This ends with-AAHH!”

A stray blast from above had struck Fett’s pack, long enough for Han to throw him off and run to help Star-Lord up. Seeing where it came from Boba Fett aimed his blaster at Aladdin and Jasmine, the two still flying around on their magic carpet and firing down with blasters. A few shots before Fett managed one right on the back quarter of the carpet, where Jasmine had been sitting, making it swerve in the air.

Princess Jasmine suddenly felt herself falling off, giving a quick and horrified “Aladdin!” all too late.

He reached for her and missed, Aladdin shouting “NNOOOOOOO!”

Jasmine felt herself falling fast in the air. Aladdin could not save her. None of the other heroes flying in the air or below would be able to catch her, all busy fighting or not close enough to see what had happened. She felt this would be the end. The ground came faster and closer to her and no one was able to save her in time….. Except for Iron Man.

Spotting the falling princess just in time Iron Man landed on the ground and ordered “Friday! Activate Rescue Protocol!”

Piece by piece Tony Stark’s armor flew off of him and towards the falling Jasmine. Her limbs were covered followed by her torso and back until finally the faceplate had snapped on around her head. It had come just in time for the thrusters to slow her descent into a halt.

As the armor helped her hover Jasmine anxiously asked “Wh-What’s going on?”

From inside the helmet the A.I. Friday answered [You’ve nothing to worry about, your highness. Mr. Stark’s Rescue Protocol will keep you safe for the duration of the battle.]

“You mean….I’m wearing the suit now?” she asked.

[For all intents and purposes, you are.] she answered. [I can provide what directions and assistance you need. But you if you require full control to me I will happily-]

“I think I can handle it.” Jasmine assured her with a growing smile. “Now then…let’s see what we can do.”

With control of the suit under her actions Jasmine blasted into the air with a cry of joy. She flew past Aladdin, glad to see she was safe, before zipping through the air and blasting at any and all enemy targets still flying about. She’d even managed to save the Falcon from being overwhelmed by several droid flyers in the process.

After Aladdin thanked him Tony heard Fury over the coms, still in the helicarrier, comment “Nice catch, Stark. But I’ll bet you’re feeling kind of naked without a suit. And not in your usual way.”

“Well you know me, Nick.” Tony smirked as he activated a device on his watch. “I never come to a party without an extra one.”

From within the hanger of the helicarrier a small box, roughly the size of a briefcase, activated from Tony’s device. It sprouted small rockets and blasted up into the air before flying its way over to Stark. As it did it unfolded itself to reveal another armor, this one gold and black, which eventually encased Tony into a new Iron Man suit.

“Friday. Patched in?” he asked.

As the systems all came on Friday answered [We’re linked, boss.]

“Good. Can’t let princesses have all the fun.” He said before flying up into the air to join Jasmine and the others in their battle.

They were joined by the giant eagle form of Maui, he cawing loud as he glided through the sky before taking down enemies one-by-one. The monster Sulley had come to Groot’s aid, pulling off the Lizard and swinging him around by the tail before letting him land hard against a nearby tree. Flynn’s frypan fighting style proved a match for the Boba Fett when he jumped in to save Han from nearly dying, yet again, at the bounty hunter’s hands. Even Tarzan had swung into the fray, kicking down a few HYDRA soldiers that tried to sneak up on Chewbacca, Rocket and Stitch, before jumping off.

Chewie growled something before Rocket commented “Yeah. Dude could put a shirt on at least.”

Obi-Wan was nearly overwhelmed by Darth Maul and his droids. Thankfully he had been saved by the arrival of Kit Fisto, the fishy-alien Jedi Master giving his iconic smile to Obi-Wan, which he returned, before both battled droid and Sith alike.

The fight with General Grievous proved more daunting for both Mulan and Ahsoka. The four-armed android had used his weapons and strength to the advantage against the green warriors. At one point he had managed to disarm and eventually kick Mulan away with all four lightsabers bearing down on Ahsoka. Just as all hope seemed lost for her Master Shaak-Ti jumped into the fray in time to block several of Grievous’ blades, aiding Ahsoka in holding him back.

During the fight their blades all locked, Grievous boasting {I don’t care how many Jedi you send! It will never be enough! All of your kind will fall and the universe will be rebuilt with no more Jedi to stop-AACCCKK!}

A blade had pierced through Grievous’ torso from the back. Mulan’s family sword proved sharper than it seemed as it had gone straight through his armor and popped out the other side. The general fell to the ground, dead, with Ahsoka and Shaak-Ti surprised that Mulan had beaten him.

With a shrug Mulan replied “Technically not a Jedi, remember?”

Ahsoka only nodded and smiled before saying “Maybe. But you sure should be.”

Mulan smirked as well before taking one of Grievous’ sabers to replace the one she lost. With Shaak-Ti joining them all three girls charged back out into the battle.

Namor had shouted “IMPERIUS REX!” as he jumped high into the air before crashing down on a bulky droid, crab-walker.

Nearby Captain America was soon disarmed by Doctor Doom and trying to fight hand-to-hand against the tyrant sorcerer. While Cap could not be matched Doom did not play fair, using his magic and the aid of two Doombots to eventually subdue the Avenger and hold him still for their master.

Before Doom could deliver a killing blow the Winter Solider, using his rifle, blasted down the Doombots before jump-kicking Doom away from his friend. While the metal monarch was on his back the Soldier helped Cap to his feet.

Nodding at the help Cap said to him “What kept you.”

“Been busy.” The Winter Soldier replied. “Thought you’d have had this settled by now.” He showed he had recovered Cap’s shield while adding “You always manage to misplace you stuff.”

“Which is why I’m glad I can reply on people like you.” Cap smiled as he took his shield back. Both looked as Doom got back to his feet before Cap indicated “Let’s kick his ass.”

The Winter Solider nodded before both, armed and battle-ready, charged at Doom to take him on together. Even for all his power Doom would find one thing he could never beat was teamwork.

During the commotion of the fighting Ant-Man had found a secured spot to fix his size-changing belt; while still being only a few centimeters tall of course. He fiddled with the tech while constantly poking his head out to see how the battle favored. Eventually he had tinkered enough to declare that he needed a few more readjustments before being able to use a “Pym Particle Disk” to use on his belt to make him Giant-Man again.

Nearby Tinkerbell did her best to help Master Yoda in his fight against the Stormtroopers. She buzzed about and distracted them long enough for the little, green alien to cut them down. She found herself straying farther away in order to lead some off Yoda’s trail but was eventually slapped to the ground by an unwelcomed face.

“There you are, my twinkling little dear.” Captain Hook chuckled with his band of pirates around him; Thanos apparently recruiting all of them to his forces as well. “No more flying away for you, and no frog-faced friends to help you now, eh?” He raised his foot, ready to bring it down while saying “Time to snuff out your light!”

Ant-Man, nearly finished, had spotted this and realized in his state there was not much he could do to help. He could grow to normal size and try to fight them off but there were so many to him he would not last. He then realized he still had the Particle Disk in hand and, despite knowing what it would cost, he knew what the best option in this instance was.

“Hey, Tink!” he called to her. “Catch!”

The little pixie had heard Ant-Man’s call in time to see the disk flying towards her. Unknowing of what it was or what it would do she reached out as Hook’s foot came closer and closer to her. The world almost seemed to slow as it seemed too close as to what would happen first, the disk reaching her hand or the foot reaching her.

In a flash Tinkerbell was encased in light. Her size grew bigger and bigger until it towered over Hook, his pirates, and anyone else nearby. What was one a pixie the size of an insect Tinkerbell now stood like a tower 60 feet tall above even the treetops.

From nearby Falcon had commented “Whoa! Talk about growth spurts.”

Tinkerbell took a moment to look at herself, realizing how tall she’d grown. After taking it in with a smile she looked down at the now cowering Hook and his pirates. As revenge she raised her foot as high as she could, a shadow looming over Hook and the crew.

The last thing he managed was “Oh no…” before he was flattened underneath her stomp.

A handful of other heroes had managed to run onto the scene. Along with the regrown Ant-Man Ahsoka, Mulan, Shaak-Ti, the Falcon who landed nearby, and even Rocket and Chewbacca crowded around her feet.

“Nice work, Scott.” Falcon commented before calling up “You okay, Tink?”

When she spoke her fairy language it was not like tiny bells but more like ringing church bells. Her giant size had come with a giant voice, or ringing in this case, that was near deafening to some of the heroes below.

“Let’s take that as a ‘yes’.” Ahsoka replied.

Agreeing Falcon then pointed out to the giant Tinkerbell “We need to keep pushing them back. Get us to that command center.”

She nodded and, turning her gaze to the objective, began to stomp her way through enemies. She crushed droids and troopers alike, flattened tanks and swatted down flyers. At one point she even used her massive wings to create a hurricane that blew some of her foes back and into the air.

At one point during her terrorizing of the enemy units Tinkerbell managed to save Master Yoda by destroying or scaring off some of the men. The Jedi looked up at her with a little shock before accepting, smiling and bowing his head in gratitude. Despite her monstrous size she was able to still give him a heartwarming smiling before both moved forward.

Merida and Hawkeye had filled the Headless Horseman with enough arrows to where he was like a pincushion. The undead riding cackled as he shrugged most of them off, fighting the two at close range. With Hawkeye pointing it out to her he and Merida changed their bows into staffs to fight the Horseman at closer quarters. Even from this range however the Horseman still seemed to have an advantage as he fought them both off pretty well.

Eventually, during the fight, Hawkeye stabbed something into the Horseman and warned “Run, kid! Run!”

Merida realized what Hawkeye had done. His omega arrow had been stabbed into the Horseman’s side and was already beeping to go off. Thinking fast the princess shot an arrow into the Horseman’s cape to pin him to the ground before running off with Hawkeye. The two managed to get within a safe enough distance before the omega arrow detonated, the Horseman going with it. The blast sent them forward on their fronts before they rolled onto their backs with relief.

“Never doing that again.” He commented as they caught their breaths.

“Oh I don’t know. I’ve still got mine if the temptation gets to you again.”

He chuckled and picked himself up, Merida following, before saying “Come on, kid. Let’s find other guys to blow up.”

Elsa’s ice golem had eventual fell against the frost giant she battled. With the giant’s heavy swing of his club the golem shattered into pieces. The strain had forced the queen to fall down and was left to the mercy of the monster. But she was not alone as the Hulk, seeing what had happened after finally taking down the Rhino, gave a resounding roar before he leapt through the air and planted his fist hard against the giant’s face. He practically broke the massive beast’s nose before he fell back, defeated, with Hulk landing near the feinted Elsa.

After she felt herself being picked up in his massive arms she looked, smiled, and touched his cheek while saying “My hero.” Making the Hulk give a friendly grunt and nod.

One-by-one all of the remaing villains fell with the heroes eventually all reuniting on the other end of the forest between where the Helicarrier landed and the command center. The combined forces of the roughish trio of Han Solo, Star-Lord and Flynn Ryder proved the end for Boba Fett when he went flying into the air after his jetpack was damaged, the last any of them seeing of him was an explosion in the air and his helmet falling back to the ground. The Green Goblin was knocked out of the air by Baymax and Hiro before Spider-Man webbed him upside down on a tree, all three reuniting with the Big Hero 6. The last of the Sinister Six were finally dealt with and Thor, helping Vision, syphoning Electro through his hammer before blasting what was left of him up into the air. Even Obi-Wan and Fit Fisto had finally put an end to Darth Maul and his quest for revenge. When all the heroes converged they were glad to see they were all alive, only a small handful of forces left between them and the command center.

Cap taking the lead again had called “Keep moving forward! We’re almost there!”

There was a more energetic cheer as the heroes pushed forward. While not hearing from them they hoped their friends inside were having as much luck at they were.

**********

Black Panther and his team proved that they too worked well together against what would seem like unfavorable odds as they battled Admiral Thrawn and his minions. With his leadership and the instincts of the other heroes they had a near easy time dealing with their foes.

Violet created barriers to block from blaster fire or to push back a handful of men while her mother, the ever-stretching Mrs. Incredible, used her flexible powers to reach around and attack them from the sides while shaping her body into things like balls, hammers and growing her fist large enough to make an effective blow. The Wasp buzzed around and struck at troopers and Chitauri soldiers with her stingers distracting them long enough for those like Panther to slice them down easily. Black Widow and Rey used their close combative skills to take on their opponents, often working together and swapping from barehanded to passing Rey’s tech-staff between them during the battle. And all the while Anna and BB-8 cheered and gave sideline warnings to their friends during the spectacle.

Eventually, with no one and nothing to defend him, Thrawn was confronted by the Black Panther who disarmed him and threatened “Stand down. It’s over.”

Thrawn gave a confident smirk and replied “You’re right. It is.”

He then pointed before everyone was shocked to see Anna was being held hostage by Randall Boggs. The lizard-like monster had Anna in the grip of three of his six limbs, one tightly around her neck while the others held her limbs to the side. BB-8 was being held down by the monster’s foot, keeping him still while making it clear he would crush them both.

“Looks like you lost this one.” Randall slyly smirked. “Now put your weapons down or the girl gets it!”

Looking around Widow realized something and called “Sparrow? Sparrow! Dammit! He’s gone.”

“Slipped away during the battle I suspect.” Thrawn mused as he stood. “Do as my friend says, Miss Romanov. Stand down.”

One-by-one all the heroes held their hands up or made it clear they would not fight anymore. The only one who did not was Black Panther who instead drew a specialized looking pistol and aimed it towards where Randall held Anna. Everyone tensed before going still as the moment seemed to be endless.

“Anna. Tell me.” Panther addressed her. “Are you afraid?” She only nodded and showed that despite her usual nature she was terrified in the moment. “Good.”

He fired the weapon. A small dart filled with liquid flew from it and instead of hitting Randall hit Anna in the neck. She gasped before falling to the ground. She writhed and coughed which both shocked and confused everyone as to what Panther had done.

“What was in that?” Rey asked. “What did you do to her?”

“What was needed.” He bluntly answered.

Starting to put it together Randall laughed “You hear that, princess? They poisoned you because you’re worthless! Better to get rid of you than keep you around as baggage.”

He laughed before Anna, lifting herself up, looked at him with glowing green eyes and growled “I’m not worthless….. I’m angry!”

She reached out and grabbed Randall with a surprising strength. The monster coward as Princess Anna grew bigger, muscular and greener. She seethed and snorted as she grew larger, her clothes and boots ripping, before Anna had now become a hulk-like hero herself.

After tossing Randall into a wall, knocking him out, she turned and asked “What was in that vile? I feel…incredible!”

“Blood transfusion. Curtesy of Mr. Banner.” Panther explained. “We didn’t want to leave you out of the fight. Nor did we want to risk you being hurt. Your sister, to her regret, agreed it was for the best.”

With a delighted hum she say “I like.” Walking over she grabbed Thrawn by the collar and lifted him up high enough to where his head bumped against the hallway roof, growling “Now I really want to pop his head open like a grape!”

“Easy there, cowgirl.” Ms. Incredible said. “We still need him.”

Panther nodded before letting her lower him down before grabbing him and slamming Thrawn against the wall, demanding “What is Thanos’ plan? Where has he taken the Infinity Stones?”

Despite the bruises and bleeding Thrawn gave a smug smirk and replied “It doesn’t matter. You’re too late. All of you are. Did you really think we weren’t ready for you? The whole battle, sending in old enemies, it was all a means of delaying my master’s plan.”

With his claws bared for further threats Panther insisted “You won’t live long enough to see it until you tell us where your master is? Where. Is. Thanos?”

Thrawn laughed “Thanos? Whoever said he was truly my master?”

**********

Both Thanos and Darth Vader had reached the lowest of levels to the Starkiller Base. When they arrived they had entered into what seemed like a generator or sorts. In truth it was, as Thanos would explain, the power source of Starkiller’s main weapon, the planet destroying beam it was infamous for. Some of the modifications seemed Chituari and HYDRA in nature but it was clear that whatever it was now it still required the use of the Infinity Stones, indicated by the slot meant for the Infinity Gauntlet.

“Have you ever seen anything so amazing, Vader?” Thanos asked as the two approached the generator. “To think the people of your reality could conceive of the idea.”

“From what I understand this weapon can destroy several planets.” Vader replied. “The Death Star was only capable of atomizing one at a time.”

“True. But now I have brought it beyond even that. This new weapon, this Infinity Canon, is my new tool in reshaping the universes altogether.” He readied the gauntlet as he explained “With the focused force of the Infinity Stones blasted into the universe tenfold realities will be set back from the very beginning. Who knows what we shall see in the end. Perhaps everything will simply cease. Maybe our histories will be different. Either way I’m graciously looking forward to it.”

“As am I.” Vader bluntly replied.

Finally at the device Thanos took one final look at the machine and the stones embedded within his gauntlet before inserting it into the generator. He watched as it lite up with life, the powers coursing through the entire mechanism and bringing Thanos closer to his goal.

The moment of victory was short however as the machine soon acted oddly. The power shot back at Thanos, blasting him away from the generator. The sudden burst of energy made hi stumble back in pain before, to his shock, something else unexpected happened. He felt something slice off his hand that held the gauntlet wright from the wrist only to discover Darth Vader holding his lightsaber in hand.

“W-What!! What are you doing?” he groaned as he held the stump of his arm.

“What I must.” Vader replied before Force-Pushing Thanos away. "If you think I would allow you to risk the destruction of the universe you're more of a fool than that overzealous Loki." As he reached for the Infinity Gauntlet he added "There is only room for one Supreme Being."

**********

Ultron, trying to lead the last defense to hold the command center, finally fell after being torn apart by Stitch. The little alien chewed his way through the android’s metal body before devouring him from the inside. As he did the other heroes had finished off every last trooper and droid and enemy alien that stood in their way.

With Captain America holding up his shield he declared “Take the base! We’ve won!”

Everyone cheered at their victory and, as a group, moved forward towards the doors leading into the command center. They stopped however when the doors opened on their own, from the other side, and could see someone walking out into the open.

Cap felt something pull at the lightsaber at his side before it flew through the air and was caught by the one stepping out from the darkness of the doorway. He was almost unknown to all. Han and Rey had only heard stories of him. Hawkeye felt his heart and soul drop at the frightening reminder.

Master Yoda, seeing the dreaded figure, gave a cold “No…” at the sight.

Darth Vader stood between the heroes and their victory. In one hand he held the lightsaber stolen from Cap. In the other everyone was horrified to see that he was equipped with the very thing they were after: the Infinity Gauntlet.