Issue #1 - Prologue: What's in Store
"Let's do this..."
Iron Man took to the skies, seeing his allies by his side. Those he's bonded with as a team since they first met and during the few missions they were involved in. Since he found out he wasn't alone in this crazy game. Way back when he first donned the armor and revealed himself as a hero.
The Avengers.
Captain America swung his shield upwards, whacking a drone's head off on impact. Thor swung his hammer down, bringing the thunder and lightning to short-circuit the robots. Hawkeye released the string of his bow, shooting three trick arrows in the direction of three robots, blowing them up instantly. Black Widow fought most of them by hand, using her training to her advantage. She kicked one down before driving her elbow into another drone. Hulk did what he usually did, ripping apart each and every single robot standing in his way, and Tony might've seen him bite into one.
"Avengers. Don't stop." Cap ordered, "We have to clear the city before it comes crashing down!"
Hawkeye looked at the leader, "Wasn't planning to, Cap!" he shouted, getting to a knee to carefully him from his spot.
"I will stand with you till the very end, Captain!" Thor yelled, throwing down his hammer and swinging upward in order to destroy the drones as they neared him. "These metallic monsters shall fall!" he declared, continuing his fight. He swung his hammer to the side, driving the end into yet another strangely designed robot.
Black Widow scowled, "We're trying, Steve!" she ducked from one of the metal beings shooting at her before she stood up, punching them and tossing them to Thor, who broke it apart with a single swing of his hammer, Mljnoir.
Hulk roared, smashing his fists and creating a shockwave, launching debris upwards and tearing the robots into pieces with his own bare hands. He grabbed one, crushed it in his grip and he threw is aside as though it was nothing. He roared again, his voice echoing loudly across the city.
Together, the original team members fought off the countless robots invading Sokovia. But this time, they had some help on their side. Unlikely from the sources of course and how they came to join.
There were the twins. Wanda used her unique reality-warping abilities to tear apart the robots individually, using her surroundings as well in order to diminish the opposing numbers. Then, there was the silver blur. Pietro sped by the streets, taking each robot one by one and running, punching and destroying each drone with ease.
And then, there was the Vision. The green robot hovered across the battlefield, short-circuiting each one and destroying the cores and programming each time. He was the wild card, but he proved to be trustworthy by his allies after a brief argument. But Tony chose not to dwell on it as he had another thing to take care of.
He had to save the city from crashing down and destroying the entire planet.
No pressure right?
Pushing those thoughts aside, Iron Man flew around the city, seeing the Helicarrier evacuate as many people as they could via the lifeboats. Luckily, the Avengers had a little help on the evacutation side. Though, they were no less capable of fighting. Tony smirked, 'Heh. Can't believe we managed to convince them to help.'
These allies were warriors from another universe. From countless dimensions, they came, each world with their own heroes, villains, and sets of problems. Warriors, soldiers, super fighting robots, demons, demon hunters. A bizarre match-up of people made up a well-oiled machine of a team.
And in a strange way, their world is the second half of the problem they're facing right now.
Chris Redfield led the heroes of his universe. He held out various weapons, shooting at the robots, large and small coming right for the group. He threw a grenade, jumped behind some debris, and watched as it exploded. "Egh." he groaned, coughing up some leftover dust from the explosion. He watched the lifeboats fly away to the Helicarrier safe and sound. "There's another lifeboat safe." he sighed in relief. Dusting himself off, he stood up.
Leon Kennedy and Jill Valentine stood back to back. The two shot at the robots as much as they could before reloading. "There's as stubborn as the monsters from Umbrella..." Leon groaned.
Jill nodded, using a machine gun to shoot another robot to pieces, "You're telling me..." she shoved a drone aside, leaving Chris to blow it up with his grenade launcher. "Wish I had guns like that..."
Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li fought off the robots with their martial arts training. The white-gi wearing warrior spun his legs as fast he could, performing his 'Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku' combo attack, tearing apart the drones with his feet. Ryu yelled the name of the attack as he did so before he landed on both feet. The Wandering Warrior crossed his arms, "This is tiring. And not much of a challenge." he admitted, wiping the sweat off his head underneath the red band wrapped on his forehead.
Ken uppercutted a drone, his fist on fire, "Shoryuken!" he yelled out, performing said attack and destroying the robot with ease. He spun as he did the attack, pushing his fist further into the robot as he did so, destroying it with ease. "You say that now, but the Avengers are pulling through as well.
Ryu landed next to Ken, stretching both of his hands and yelling, "Hadoken!" a ball of blue energy came out of his hands, driving itself into a line of robots heading their way. He turned around to the civilians hiding behind them. "Go! Chun-Li will ensure your safety while we hold these mechinal creatures off!" he ordered.
The people nodded, runnng away as fast they could to the nearest lifeboat. On the way, they saw Chun-Li kick and punch each and every drone charging for her, with a grunt, she yelled as she performed a series of kicks with one leg, "Hyakuretsu Kyaku!" she took on each drone with ease. Once she was finished, she spoke to the civilians, "Go past me! The lifeboat should be right there!"
Nearby was a man wearing a red coat, wielding a large sword and two trademark pistols. Dante, the demon Son of Sparda, took on the robots with ease. "Heh. Sure beats beating monsters from hell. Or Vergil..." he admitted, driving his sword into the torso of a robot, blowing it to pieces after shooting its head off with his guns, Ebony and Ivory. "Sure wish Trish could see this."
Dante backflipped, driving his sword into the head of another robot before kicking another once he removed the blade. He shot two flying robots descending on him and destroyed them before they could even land. "Alright. How are you doin' Nathan?" he asked his comrade, one he hasn't seen in a while.
Nathan Spencer stretched his bionic arm, grabbing a robot and tossing him into another line of robots, making them collapse, allowing Dante to finish them off. "Honestly? A little pissed. This wasn't how I planned my downtime."
Dante shrugged, "Same here."
Continuing his assault, Dante drove his sword into the back of a robot before yanking it out, giving Spencer time to grab it and rip it apart with his bionic arm. "That's still pretty cool." he complimented, dusting his hands off.
"For you maybe." Spencer moaned.
Meanwhile, there were three robots fighting the drones. Surprisingly, like Vision, they were on the side of good. And in the cases of two of them, this was personal. Mega Man used his Mega Buster to shoot down the robots with a charged shot. His blue armor changed colors, and he threw a Metal Blade, tearing apart more drones with a single, powerful toss of the blade.
Mega Man looked at his robotic comrades, a robot blue like him, but taller and more intricately designed. It was his successor, Mega Man X, or X for short. "How many Mechaniloids do they have?" asked the Blue Bomber with a groan heard in his voice, clearly annoyed and exhausted by the opposing forces.
X turned his eyes to his predecessor whle doing his best to bring down the opposing drones with his own cannon, the X-Buster, "Not sure. Sigma's always one to have a constant army." he looked to his right, seeing a red robot, with a helmet and green light on his head and chest. He wielded a green glowing sabre on his hand. He was considered to be X's friend, and longtime battle comrade.
"Sigma and Ultron are really an annoying team!" Zero yelled, swinging his Z-Sabre downward, slicing apart some Mavericks and Mechaniloids ready to attack him. "I'll slice them apart when I get the chance."
X nodded, "You're telling me. Sigma's terrible on his own, but with someone like Ultron, he could be unstoppable."
"And with some of Wily's designs from my timeline, they got a bigger army than expected!" Mega Man noted, aiming his cannon upwards, shooting some Ultron drones descending on him and the Maverick Hunters, who aided him in the act. "Is this normal for the two of you?" he asked the Maverick Hunters. "Cause this is somewhat unusual for me."
"Minus the dimensional crisis, yes." X revealed, aiming his X-Buster in various directions.
"I just wish it didn't come to this." Zero sighed.
Iron Man ensured that his new allies were able to handle themselves. And with a new sense of assurance, he continued to fly, but something hit his armor, making him fumble around in middair, "What the hell?" he asked aloud.
He landed, making sure his armor was stlll fully powered. He saw them. The very people causing all this mayhem now. Despite the many obstacles in their way, the Avengers weren't prepared for an alliance of this scale.
The dull gray robot stared at Stark, his glowing red eyes glaring into his soul. "It's hopeless now, Stark. My army shall purify this world once and for all."
Ultron chuckled darkly over his plan, making Tony's skin crawl underneath his Mark 45 armor. "Together, we shall be gods. And you will fall with those deemed inferior."
Landing next to him was his ally, a robot with a bald head, glowing blue eyes, a cape and a suit of armor. He smirked, clenching a fist at the sight of Iron Man, "You Avengers have no way of stopping our plans." he declared.
"I like to think we have a chance." Iron Man swiftly quipped, hiding the fear he had in his conscience.
Ultron raised a hand, "Do you? The odds are against you, Avengers." the robot announced. "Even these new warriors stand no chance in stopping our enhanced Mechaniloid Army. Face it, Tony. This time, there's no escaping the consequences..."
"I try my best." joked Iron Man, activating his thrusters.
Before Sigma could shoot him down, he felt something attack him from behind. When the Maverick saw who it was, he smirked, "Heh. It seems you still have some fight left in you, X!"
"That's it, Sigma! Your reign of terror ends here!" X declared as loud as he could.
"Yes, X. Show me your full power!" Sigma announced, removing his cape and ready to fight.
X faced Iron Man, "Go! Bring the city back up! Make sure it doesn't fall down!" he commanded.
Ultron decided to attack for Sigma, but the Vision suddenly appeared, tossing Ultron aside. "You will not harm anyone for long, Ultron." he boasted.
"Ah, the mistake." Ultron growled.
Something round hit Ultron before bouncing off Sigma, who neared the battle-ready X. The object bounced back to the palm of Captain America, who strapped his shield to his wrist. "He's not a mistake. Although, you two have made a grave one."
With a quick salute, Iron Man flew away. He was unsure of how it all led to this. Hell, he was unsure how to process any of this. But once again, he had to focus his mind on stopping the island from crashing down onto the planet.
'Okay, okay...' thought Tony, making his way to the desired destination soon enough, trying to calm himself down, 'Let's go over how this happened. I can calm myself down after that...' he mused, wanting to empty his mind for good.
A/N: Hey, guys. So Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite just got announced. That just proved the dream is real and Mahvel is back!
Rumors were going around saying that the game may be focused on MCU characters and less on X-Men/F4. With that, that's how I came up with this, yet another lingering thought in my mind that I was motivated to write. It's an adaptation of Age of Ultron with Capcom characters in the mix.
Of course, I'll do my best to juggle the stories I have right now, and with this, I want to contnue working on Web of Chaos IV. I just feel it will disappoint after a long wait, but I will finish it.