Chapter 28
The streets were in chaos.
The black army was in a vicious, unrelenting fight with the Avengers, X-Men and the Winchesters.
Clint and Natasha struggled tirelessly to keep the soldiers from attacking any civilian, while clearing the mentioned civilians out of the crossfire.
Steve was fighting his way through the army with his shield, bringing down as much soldiers as he could, to lower the pressure on the rest of his team.
Logan, Hank and the Hulk fought viciously with the seemingly endless army.
All while all of them were trying to avoid the attacks of the relentless warship, led by the angry Dark Angel.
Meanwhile, Dean had managed to hunt down Dark Dean, jumping on him with all his might.
“You think you can face me?” Dark Dean taunted; sarcasm obvious from his voice from behind his mask.
“Oh, Fucker, I am not letting anyone else deal with you except me.” Dean snarled before attacking.
As Steve jumped away from a relentless attack from the warship, he growled into his comm.
“We could use a little help down there, Tony!”
***
“I got you covered, babe.” Tony announced from his place inside the Quinjet, Charles beside him, Charlie and Sam with tablets behind him.
He started to chase down the battleship, shooting at it until he made it flew up towards the sky with him chasing behind it.
“Hey, Charles, don’t you think this is just like Star Raiders on Atari, except it’s real?” Tony laughed loudly, as he chased the warship and shot it.
“Focus, Red 2, and fly the ship.” Charles retorted with a pointed raised eyebrow towards Tony.
“Launching torpedo one!” he shouted gleefully, as he pressed a few buttons to release two missiles.
“You don’t have to say it out loud!”
The missiles hit the warship, but caused no apparent damage, like nothing had happened.
“Okay, guys, is it just me or is this not working?” Sam said in frustration, glaring at the warship nervously.
“It’s not working.” Tony and Charles said together in equal frustration.
“We need to take down their shields.” Charlie announced with a frown down her tablet.
***
Down the street, Rhodey, Sam Wilson and Bucky joined the fight by dropping down in the middle of the chaos.
“What took you so long?” Natasha asked in frustration when Bucky landed next to her, knocking down a soldier, that was about to shoot Clint in the back, who was busy carrying a couple of children out of the way.
“We had to make a detour. The sky is in chaos, in case you hadn’t noticed.” Bucky answered, indicating the fight between the Quinjet and the warship.
Rhodey and Sam flew through the fighting army, shooting back at them, clearing a path to Steve, who was having a vicious fight with a tank, and avoiding the harsh fight between the two Deans.
***
“Guys, this is really not working.” Charlie announced in frustration, as Tony kept attacking the battleship with no progress. “I think we need a bigger gun.”
“Way ahead of you.” Sam smirked beside her, when everyone turned to him, he grinned. “I already sent a big gun towards them.”
***
“General, we have got inbound.”
A soldier rushed to report to Dark Castiel on the bridge of the warship.
“Then fire counter measures.” Dark Castiel answered coldly, as he turned to the soldier, looking at him like he was an idiot.
“We can’t.” the soldier swallowed nervously from the dark, cold look directed at him, eyes shifting towards something behind the dark angel. “It’s hovering directly off our bow.”
Dark Castiel’s eyes widened, before turning sharply towards the bow, to see a winged Castiel hovering outside, looking smug.
“General, would you care to step outside?” Castiel called out with a raised eyebrow and a taunting smile. “Or are you too weak to put up a fight?”
Dark Castiel growled in anger, before releasing his wings and flew right towards the glass, breaking it to pieces as he charged towards Castiel and up to the sky.
***
“Waiting for some good news here.”
Tony called out impatiently, as he chased down the warship.
“I don’t have any for you, man! The only way to take out their shields is to get someone onboard that ship.” Charlie reported anxiously, her fingers flying on the tablet.
“Erik?” Charles called through the comms expectantly, proving that he had sent the order a while ago.
“We are on our way.” Came Erik’s firm answer through the comms.
***
Clutching to Thor as he flew through the sky and towards the warship, Erik and Raven hang on for dear life.
When they became directly above the ship, Erik looked up at Thor.
“We will take it from here.” He called out firmly to the demigod. “You go back up Castiel.”
“Alright, don’t get yourselves killed.” Thor nodded at them, before they released their grip and land on top the warship, then he flew away towards the fighting angels.
Erik and Raven crashed through the broken front glass, to land directly inside the bridge.
Only to be faced with over fifteen, startled soldiers.
Erik and Raven exchanged a fast nod, before charging.
Erik started by disarming the soldiers with his powers, then Raven jumped to take them down, while he threw around the stolen guns, bringing down the soldiers efficiently.
Under less than a minute, they were the only two standing in the bridge.
“We are on the bridge, Charlie.” Raven called out in the comms, as they both rushed towards the control panel.
“But we don’t know what we are looking for.” Erik added with a frown, as he eyed the hundreds of buttons and controllers.
***
“Yeah, yeah, I am working on it.” Charlie said hurriedly, working fast as she sent codes over to Sam to look over it. “I got it!”
“Alright, Guys, I am sending you the source code for their defector shield.” Sam announced, as he checked the codes, before sending them to the infiltration team.
***
“Yeah, got it, manual override protocol.” Raven nodded at the data being sent to her, working out the steps carefully. “If I am reading this correctly, all we need to do now is-“
“-Hit the big blinking red button.” Erik finished as he eyed the said button, marching towards it to press it firmly.
They both heard a whirring sound fill the room.
***
“Got it! Shields are down!”
Sam announced with a grin, looking over at the two geniuses at the front.
“Charles, you think you can handle this bad boy?” Tony said hurriedly, getting out of the pilot chair to push Charles in it instead.
“Sure, like walking in the park.” Charles answered nervously, before looking up at him. “Where are you going?”
“Getting your husband and sister off that ship.” Tony answered firmly, pressing his arc reactor to let his suit cover him, before opening the ceiling door. “Count to ten, hit them with everything we have got.”
“You got it, just be fast.” Charles nodded back at him, biting his lower lip in worry, as Tony nodded at him and flew right out of the ceiling.
***
The fight between Castiel and Dark Castiel was getting too violent as they hit each other with all their might.
That increased when Thor charged right into the fight, sending Dark Castiel flying, who only growled in increasing frustration at his two enemies.
“You could have avoided all that, if you just surrendered your heart.” The Dark angel shouted angrily at his doppelganger.
Castiel exchanged a smirk with Thor, before they both turned to the Dark Castiel.
“Apparently, my heart is not just my own to give.” Castiel just shrugged with a smirk.
“How unfortunate for you.” Thor added smugly, rolling his hammer in his hands to keep himself elevated.
Dark Castiel yelled in anger, before charging at them.
***
Charles counted to ten, then hesitated when Tony still didn’t make an appearance.
“Come on, Tony. I hope you got them out.” Charles whispered under his breath, before starting the attack on the warship.
He flew over the warship, raining down lasers on it with all he got, watching as the ship went into flames right before his eyes.
He didn’t stop shooting, until he saw the ship explode in the middle of the air.
His heart bounded in his chest as he exchanged looks with Sam and Charlie’s equally wide eyes, as a certain Iron Man still didn’t make an appearance.
They all practically melted in relief, when Tony landed right from the opened ceiling, carrying a frowning Erik and an ecstatic Raven.
“Wow, Big Brain, you really know how to release your frustrations.” Tony laughed loudly as his helmet disappeared from around his head, looking proud, as he took his place back on the pilot seat.
“I have a lot of pent-up frustrations.” Charles retorted with a smile, as Erik moved to pull him into his arms happily. As Raven was tackled with an enthusiastic hug from Charlie.
“You are becoming quite the badass, Schatz. Soon you won’t be needing me anymore.” Erik murmured with a proud smile, placing a quick kiss to Charles’ lips.
“Don’t be an idiot. I will always need you.” Charles grinned up at him in delight, exchanging another kiss.
“Alright, kissy faces, we are not done yet.” Tony announced with a smirk as he flew them down to the battle still raging on the ground. “We still need to deal with the king and the dark angel.”