JLU SPIDER-FRIENDS VOL. I: THE JOURNEY BEGINS

Chapter 18: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Part 2

Now begins the new chapter, and I had recently heard the of Stan Lee's death before I finished the last chapter. That's a pity because now he won't be filming any more cameos in future Marvel movies, but his name will live on forever.

Meanwhile just as the strange energy was spreading out, an alarm was sounding off in the Triskelion. Victor Stone aka Cyborg was the first to perceive the danger and checked the computer monitor "That's odd" he thought to himself "I've never seen anything like that."

"What is it Victor?" asked Donna coming over with Spider-Man and Miss Martian.

"There's some kind of energy readings that I've never seen before." Victor told her "As we speak, it's spreading out from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." The others looked at the screen and were horrified to see what was happening.

"We'd better alert the League about this right now." Spider-Man told him urgently, Cyborg nodded in agreement and quickly typed in a distress signal, and sent it up to the Watchtower. At that same instant, the energy washed over New York and shut off all the power throughout the city. All except, the Triskelion that was located on an island near the Harbor.

"Is that what I think it is?" asked M'gann fearfully.

"Yes I'm afraid it is." Victor answered "I believe it's some kind of network virus that's just shut off all the power, not only on the internet. But also across country and the whole world."

"Then how come the Triskelion is still online?" Donna asked curiously.

"I guess the only reason is because this place was built with materials that aren't from this world." Spider-Man explained "Victor, do you think you can contact the Batcave and if anyone's home?"

"I can do that." Victor answered, so he hacked into the system and found that it was functioning. Donna was prompted to ask one question "Victor didn't you say that the strange energy was coming from Pittsburgh?"

"I sure did, I suspect it some kind of network virus." Victor said "Now why do you ask?"

"That's where Green Lantern II said he was going when he responded to a police call, the A-Bomb went there too." Donna explained, M'gann grew a little concerned when she heard that, she knew that A-Bomb had also gone to Pittsburgh to help the younger Lantern with a case. But she also worried about him so much.

Donna, on the other hand, had another idea. She put a hand to her communicator and said "A-Bomb, Lantern, Firestorm, come in. What has happened in Pittsburgh? Do you require our assistance?" there was no answer, and the others were getting very concerned, especially Miss Martian.

"Lantern, Firestorm come in! do you read me?" Donna asked out loud, but there was still no answer.

"Now something's not right here." Spider-Man told them "Either they're just not answering or the power's also been shorted out in Pittsburgh."

"Then we've got to find them." M'gann urged "Before it's too late." The other three nodded in agreement and they went to the Triskelion's hanger where they kept Miss Martian's Bioship. the four of them got into the ship and took off to Pittsburgh in order to investigate the strange occurrence.

As soon as they had arrived on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, the quartet were shocked to see that the city looked completely deserted with no signs of life. There was no sound of the traffic in the streets, the lights were not all on inside the buildings, and there were no pedestrians on the sidewalks.

"What happened here?!" gasped M'gann, the others were at a loss for words. Victor scanned the city for as much as he could but to no avail "There's definitely something wrong here." he told them as soon as he was done scanning.

Spider-Man looked skeptical "Okay, M'gann do a telepathic sweep and see if you can find anyone or anything." So the Martian girl did a quick scan of the city with her telepathy but she was shocked to feel nothing, not even the presence of her three teammates who were in the city.

"I've got nothing" she told the others "I just don't understand the reason."

"Then we'll have to contact the Bat-family in Gotham." Spider-Man told her "And see what they say about it."

Elsewhere

Meanwhile at Mercury Labs, the Vision and the three younger heroes were laying on the floor, after knocked out from the outburst of energy. Green Lantern II was the first to wake up and got up off the floor, and uncovered his friends from a green extension of energy from his power ring that protected them all from the network virus' expansion. A-Bomb also got up from the explosion and shook the dizziness out of his head "Wha…What happened?"

"We just got overwhelmed by a sudden expansion of unusual energy, that's what happened." Kyle answered, the Vision also got up and looked around "It seems that Ultron got exactly what he wanted." He told his companions "That 'unusual' energy was the spreading of a highly advanced, network virus."

"Well that really explains the whole situation." Green Lantern II remarked before looking down at Firestorm "Is he gonna be okay? Recently, I hit him so hard that he hit his head on the floor."

"Perhaps this will help." Vision took off his own helmet and put on Firestorm's head, the helmet glowed for a moment until the Nuclear Man finally regained consciousness. All at once he bolted upright and exclaimed "Huh? Wha…What's going on here?!" he looked around and saw his friends staring down at him, and he immediately realized what had happened. "Aww man, not again."

"As it would appear." Kyle told him "That stupid old robot managed to escape, no thanks to your shenanigans." He helped Firestorm off the floor and the quartet went to the back room, Vision took a closer look at the generator "It seems that the schemes of Ultron have begun to reach their fullest."

"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Firestorm indignantly.

"It means that sooner or later, while he is in the middle of conquering this world, he will also destroy another." Vision explained gravely "Now come, we must set out to find Ultron before it's too late."

Meanwhile

"So far, there's been two surges of powerful energy." Batgirl confirmed over the audio communication system on the Bat-Computer. "The one in Pittsburgh is where the network virus spread from, while another one seems to be coming from some place in Romania."

"But which part of Romania is it?" asked Donna.

"I think it's near Bukovina." Nightwing answered "We'll send these coordinates and we'll rendezvous with you there."

"Okay, see you soon. Over and out." Spider-Man told him, then the wallcrawler turned back to the others. "Alright guys, it's time for a little trip to Romania."

"Alright let's go!" said M'gann excitedly, the four of them climbed aboard the red Bioship and took off for Bukovina, Romania. Before too long, the vast Romanian countryside came into full view, then Cyborg let out a whistle "Wow! Romania sure looks beautiful this time of year."

"I couldn't agree more Victor." Donna told him as the ship landed on the outskirts of Bukovina and they all piled out. Then the Batwing arrived on the scene, and then Nightwing and Batgirl joined them "So…you guys got here just in time."

"That we did." Spider-Man answered "And I believe that we're going to Earth-616."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" M'gann said excitedly, so Cyborg activated an interdimensional vortex and the six of them stepped right through.

Back in the USA

Meanwhile Vision, A-Bomb, Green Lantern II and Firestorm had searched for Ultron and his accomplices through several cities in a few states including; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Boston and Salem in Massachusetts, Newark and Trenton in New Jersey, and then finally Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. But each city was just as deserted as Pittsburgh, empty and not a single soul in plain sight.

"Where is everybody?" Firestorm demanded "We've looked everywhere and still no sign of Ultron."

"Oh come off it Hot Rod!" Kyle snapped "We've only looked through most of the Northeastern States and we still haven't even looked through New York City."

"Well…that's a very good idea." Vision told them "Because that's where the World Assembly is located." The two young men looked at each other and then nodded in agreement with the android. So they headed over to New York City where they could find the World Assembly.

Before too long, the quartet arrived at the exact place where they found a great crowd had gathered inside the building. Not in the meeting room for the United Nations, but in the large gathering hall where every person from all the cities they had searched before were gathered in a vast multitude, forming a circle around a large platform upon which stood the very people they were looking for; Ultron and Dr. Maria Rivera.

"Hear me people of Earth!" the silver android bellowed "Tonight the time has come for all organic life forms to make way for the dawning of a new age, the Age of Ultron! And everything that is metal!" the whole crowd cheered and roared with applause, the four heroes silently slipped into the crowd and watched as Ultron continued giving his speech.

"Say, how many of those helmets do you have left." Firestorm asked.

"Only two." Vision answered.

"That's not going to be enough." Firestorm lamented, they continued to observe the whole thing as Ultron went on with his speech.

"Further more, it stands to reason that your own kind, the human race has gone on violating everything; they have developed weapons of war, polluting the skies with nuclear explosions, the seas with garbage and the ground with toxic wastes!"

"Hey! That's not entirely true!" Firestorm objected, but Green Lantern II nudged him with his elbow. "Hot Rod! Don't provoke the supervillain!"

"Whatever you do Ronald." Professor Stein's voice echoed inside the Nuclear Man's head "Don't antagonize Ultron so much!" but both warnings went unheeded as Ronnie continued to shout "Hey metal man! Why don't you go fly out into space and blow up an actual space station!"

Ultron looked out at the crowd and saw the heroes "Soldiers and citizens! Destroy those intruders at once!" first the mesmerized people turned around and advanced on the heroes chanting "Destroy them, destroy them."

"Couldn't keep your mouth shut could you?" growled Kyle impatiently as the mind-controlled citizens surrounded them all, the Vision and Green Lantern II quickly formed a ditch with beams from Vision's forehead and Kyle's power ring, that barricaded them from the surrounding crowds.

"I'm going after Ultron!" said Kyle in desperation, he quickly lifted off into the air and headed straight for the villains' direction. "Riot!" shouted Ultron "Thunderclap! Dreadnought! Berserker! Stop him!" in an instant, four differently shaped robots, each armed with a different arsenal of weapons, flew up and intercepted the secondary Green Lantern of Sector 2814.

"Hey! Out of the way scrap buckets!" yelled Kyle as he formed the constructs of a machine gun, a laser cannon, an axe and a sword to ward them off. The one called Riot brought out his own weapons, a flail and a scythe, forcing the Lantern to form the construct of a shield to block the strikes. Then two of the other ones that were called Dreadnought and Thunderclap, opened fire with their own laser cannons, this time forcing Kyle to dodge Riot's strikes while blocking Dreadnought and Thunderclap's fire shots at the same. Just as the robot called Berserker was about to make his move when all of a sudden, a great big blue shape collided into him, causing both of them to crash into the ground.

"What the hell?!" cried Berserker getting up to see what hit him, what he got next was the sight of a huge blue gargantuan creature that struck him between the eyes, and he was sent sprawling into a brick wall. Enraged, the android got back up and charged at his offender "You'll regret that you freak!" he lunged forward, only to get his circuits pulled right out of his abdomen and his throat, Berserker howled in pain as the A-Bomb continued ripping him apart.

Just as Kyle had finally finished with Riot, Dreadnought and Thunderclap, he turned around and realized that they were too late "Darn it! Ultron got away while I was busy fighting with these guys." He berated himself.

Meanwhile, things were getting very intense with the crowd. The mesmerized civilians were continuing to close in on Vision and Firestorm, pretty soon the same girls that had been with Firestorm at the café earlier that day, started to close in on them. Vision charged up his optic beam to open fire, but Firestorm cut him off "Wait! You can't just shoot them!" he objected.

Turning to the mesmerized teenage girls, the Nuclear Man tried to reason with them "Hey ladies, can't you recognize me? I saved your lives this morning." But the girls paid him no heed because just like the rest of the people, they were under the influence of the mind-control.

Vision stepped forward and put a hand on Firestorm's shoulder "It's no use, those girls can't listen to you as long as they are being controlled." He explained carefully, Firestorm couldn't believe it.

"But isn't there anything we can do?" he asked miserably.

"Well, we can help them by tracking down Ultron and eliminating his threats." Vision explained earnestly and reasonably, Firestorm was about to object when Professor Stein's voice spoke inside his head "He's right Ronald, we can't do much good for these people here. but we can help them by finding Ultron and stopping him in his tracks, once and for all!" Ronnie thought for a moment before nodding in agreement "Alright, let's go. But first we've got to evade the crowd without hurting them." So that is what they did, with Firestorm forming a circle of flames around them to keep the people away, then they took off into the air and didn't come back down until they were far away from the crowds. Then they met up with Green Lantern II and the A-Bomb who had both finished their fight with Ultron's drones.

"We lost track of Ultron while we were fighting his robotic cronies." Kyle told them "I just can't tell how he's planning to destroy Earth-616."

"I think I know how." Vision told him "I believe that he's heading for the air base on the outskirts of the city."

"Then that's where all of us are headed!" said Firestorm with determination, the Vision and Green Lantern II both nodded in agreement with him, while the A-Bomb just grinned at him. So the four of them set out to find and apprehend Ultron at the Pittsburgh Air Base on the outside of town.

Earth-616; Washington, DC

"It feels so nice to be back here." Spider-Man told his compatriots as they stood on the edge of a building, overlooking the capital of the United States in his old homeworld. Batgirl, Nightwing, Troia, Cyborg and Miss Martian all nodded their heads in agreement, they all knew what it was like to be away from your old home for so long.

"We all know what you mean." Nightwing told him "But let's get a move on, especially if you want to find SHIELD Headquarters."

The group went inside the Bioship, and took off while it was still in camouflage mode, but no one suspected that someone was actually following them and was not far behind.

"I've always wished to visit Washington, D.C." M'gann told her friends.

"Yes, it's everyone's wish to visit this place." Donna told her "But we need to press on, we mustn't waste time." No sooner had she said that when all of a sudden, the ship shook on impact from something very hard. Quickly, Cyborg checked the side screen and saw that SHIELD aircraft was following them.

"Holy crap! There's some government aircraft following us!" he exclaimed, Spider-Man moved up to the side screen and looked closely at their attackers "Those aircraft are from SHIELD." He told his friends "They must think we're spying on the country."

"Then we've got to convince them that we're friends." M'gann told him urgently, so she brought the ship to land on the roof of a building where they could be out of sight, the SHIELD aircraft also landed and the pilots piled out. The team also got of their ship and had their hands raised in the air since the SHIELD agents were heavily armed with guns.

"Spider-Man?" asked one of the agents, the wallcrawler nodded before the agent pulled out a radio transmitter and pressed a button on the side of it. "Coulson! We've found some interlopers who might be here to spy on the country, what's more is that Spider-Man is with them."

"What? That's not true!" cried Batgirl in protest "We're here to investigate some mysterious occurrences that started when a mysterious network virus spread from Pittsburgh on another Earth where we're from!"

That got a reaction, the agents all stared at her for a moment before exchanging glances. Right at that moment, a quinjet came flying up to the very same building they were on. When it landed, out stepped one of the very few persons that Peter Parker had never expected to see again. "Good afternoon Spider-Man, not once in a lifetime did I ever expect you to be back here so soon."

"Same here Coulson, now you should know that there's been a slight, unfortunate misunderstanding about all this." Spider-Man answered as he started to explain "First of all, my teammates and I are not here to spy on the country, we've come to investigate some strange occurrences. Now this is going to take some time to explain all of this properly."

Agent Coulson turned towards the SHIELD pilots "It's okay, just put away your weapons. They don't mean any harm." After the pilots did as they were told, the top agent turned back to his old friend "Why don't you and your friends come along to HQ, I'm pretty sure the Director would like to hear your story."

Pittsburgh, PA; Earth-38

Meanwhile back with the situation at hand, Ultron and his accomplices including Dr. Rivera had reached the air base where two guards rushed out to them.

"Halt! Who goes there?!" one of them called out, the large silver android just grinned wickedly and walked closer "I am Ultron, your new lord and master." He replied as the light on his mind-control helmet glowed slightly, causing the guards to fall into a trance "You will do exactly as I say."

"Yes Lord Ultron." The guards answered before standing aside to let Ultron and Dr. Rivera walk inside the base. Before too long, Ultron's pursuers came following after and arrived outside the gate.

"Stop in the name of Ultron!" the guards shouted as they began firing at the would-be intruders, only to knocked out in return by another android that could somehow turn intangible. After inspecting his handiwork, the Vision turned back to his three companions "I suspect that Ultron must be inside the air base." He told them. Just then there was a noise like the sound of a rocket being put into ignition.

"What's that sound?" asked Green Lantern II. The answer to his question came in the form of what like seven warhead missiles being launched straight up into the atmosphere. Then a large swirling vortex opened up overhead where the missiles were heading to.

"He's launching missiles to Earth-616!" cried Vision in desperation.

"I'm on it!" Kyle told him determinedly, powering up and taking off after the warheads "You guys deal with Ultron!" he called out flying after the missiles. Then as soon as he caught up with the first missile, he set to work on taking out its power source, causing it to malfunction and fall down to the ground just before the last six missiles went through the portal.

Meanwhile inside the station of the air base, Ultron was sitting down and observing the missiles' flight through satellite camera when the strangest thing happened.

"Sir, missile #1 went offline just now." Dr. Rivera reported.

"What? How is that possible?" Ultron demanded angrily.

"Beats me" said a familiar voice, the silver android turned around in his chair to see the A-Bomb, the Vision and Firestorm standing in the doorway. "Must be our friend with the power ring." Firestorm said.

"You again?" asked Ultron in disbelief.

"Ultron" said Vision sternly "By the authority of SHIELD, we are placing you under arrest for all crimes, past and present, on Earth-616."

"It's too late for that." Ultron answered, boasting "Much too late. Before too long, there won't even be an Earth-616!"

SHIELD HQ, Washington D.C.; Earth-616

"So you came here to see what caused the strange occurrences that lead to the disappearance of the Pittsburgh on Earth-38, is that right?" asked Nick Fury, the Director of SHIELD. Spider-Man nodded, the rest of the Prime Avengers stood off to the side while the two were conversing.

"Sir!" cried an agent who came running into the room "There's six nuclear warhead missiles coming through Earth's atmosphere, and it looks like they're all heading for New York and other parts of the world as well."

Fury's eyes widened in alarm before he turned to look at the wallcrawler "Well Parker, looks like you and your new friends are up. Do you think your new team can disable a few nuclear missiles?"

Spider-Man turned to look at his teammates who all nodded in agreement before turning back to Fury and responding "Sure thing Fury, not a problem." Then he turned back to Nightwing, Batgirl, Troia, Cyborg and Miss Martian, he barked in a commanding tone; "Prime Avengers ROLL OUT!"

Fury grinned in suspense as he watched the young heroes race outside to face the danger, this is what he liked to see in a team most of the time.

As soon as the team got outside, they could see the streets were filled with so many screaming people from a long ways off. Then they looked up to the sky in time to see the missiles heading straight for the ground "Great suffering balls of fire!" yelled out Cyborg "They're heading straight for the capital!"

"Then we'd better do something about it before it's too late." Spider-Man reminded him before turning to Nightwing "How close are those warheads getting?"

"About 6.27 kilometers." Nightwing answered, looking through his binoculars. "Looks like we've got only ten minutes before those "timebombs" hit the city."

Thinking quickly, the Prime Avengers sprang into action. As they were coming to the top of a building, Green Lantern II had already taken out missiles #2 and #3.

"Oh no! I'm too late!" he exclaimed in horror as he watched the last three missiles head for Washington DC, but was relieved to see his teammates spring into some real action. Spider-Man and Cyborg disabled missiles #4 and #5, while Miss Martian phased through missile #6, taking out its detonator. Finally, Troia flew up and drew her sword at the ready and sliced through the middle of missile #7, but then she flew right in front of the front half and pressed her hands against it.

"Hera, grant me strength!" she cried out all the while straining against the missile, and pressing with all of her might. From where she was pressing, large dents began to form and her feet finally touched the ground before the remains of missile fell right on top of her.

"Donna!" Batgirl and Nightwing came running over to where the missile had crashed down and started digging, the other heroes along with Green Lantern II came over to help out. Kyle set to digging on one side while Nightwing and Batgirl dug on the other, Spider-Man, Cyborg and Miss Martian were concerned for their Amazon friend while a group of SHIELD agents gathered around.

"Come on, she's got to be here!" Kyle urged in frustration.

Victor came over and put a hand on his friend's shoulder "I know how you're feeling man, I'm so sorry." Kyle lowered his head and was just about to give up when all of a sudden, the remains of the missile moved and one of Donna's hands burst up from the ground. Spider-Man, Miss Martian, Batgirl and Nightwing came around in time to see Troia heave the massive weight of off herself, then the young Amazon princess held up the detonator that she had successfully managed to get out of the missile before crushing it.

Then Troia flew up, landed on firm ground and addressed the crowd of agents "The Fates were kind today, your world is safe." The agents cheered loudly while Fury crossed his arms with a smirk and Coulson stood off to the side with a similar grin.

Pittsburgh, PA; Earth-38

"Sir, missiles #4, #5 and #6 were deactivated just now." Dr. Rivera reported much to Ultron's fury and frustration.

"It's over Ultron." The Vision told him sternly."

"NO!" Ultron shouted, dodging Vision's optic blasts and knocking both his former creation and the A-Bomb to the floor. "I won't lose to the likes of you!" he was just about to deliver a finishing blow to Vision when his mind-control helmet was pulled down over his eyes.

"Hey! Guess who!" Firestorm taunted before moving off in another direction, Ultron fumbled with his helmet for a minute before pulling it off his head "Where are you human?" he demanded angrily, before Dr. Rivera put in.

"Missile #7 has been deactivated." She told him, Ultron stared at the satellite screen in a blazing fury, while Firestorm stood off to the side grinning proudly and triumphantly.

"Well, I guess they don't build missiles like they used to." He told them, Ultron turned on him with a furious rage.

"I'll tear you limb from limb!" he shouted, charging at the Nuclear Man who dodged just in time before the silver android crashed into a wall. "Come on, you have to do better that." Firestorm taunted, Ultron angrily got to his feet again and this time fired a plasma blast to disintegrate his opponent, but Firestorm flew up into the air to avoid the blasts.

"Oh, is that all you've got?" he asked in a mocking tone, which only infuriated the android even more.

"You'll regret those words boy!" he shouted, launching forward into the air only to get his head stuck in the ceiling for while until he managed to get himself loose and flew straight at Firestorm, throwing punch after punch until his right arm got stuck in one of the consoles.

"Hold still and fight me, you simpleton!" he roared out, the Nuclear man turned to glare at his bigger adversary until a plan started to form in the back of mind.

"Alright, if you really want a good fight." He told the silver android "Then here's how we'll do it. I'll ditch this helmet while you take off the mind-control device."

"Firestorm don't!" Vision warned, he had gotten back up during the scuffle and was now helping A-Bomb to his feet.

"Come on big metal man." Firestorm taunted "I dare you, take off the helmet and I'll take off mine." So with that, he flipped off his helmet onto the floor, much to the Vision's dismay.

Ultron only smirked "You're even duller than I least expected."

"And you're …absolutely…naked!" Firestorm shot back.

"You will pay dearly for those insults." Ultron snarled, putting a hand to his mind-control helmet "Farewell,… Firestorm!" then he pressed a button on his helmet, but nothing happened. The android pulled off his helmet and examined it for a few minutes, then he turned to glare at the Nuclear man "What have you done?!"

"It's simple." Firestorm answered "When I pulled the helmet down over your eyes, I also crossed some wires. You know, in case you were to pull a stunt like that again."

"Then I shall build a new mind-control device!" Ultron snarked before pulling out his inter-dimensional device "I will go back to Earth-616 and return here with a better, highly advanced device. Then you'll be the first to have a very excruciating experience!" then the silver android pushed a button on his device, only for the unexpected to happen. A large electrical surge went out of the interdimensional device and into Ultron's body, causing to cry out in pain. After a few minutes of writhing, the corrupt AI fell down flat on his face.

"Oh no!" cried Dr. Rivera, rushing to Ultron's side and checking on him "What did you do to him?!" she demanded glaring at Firestorm."

"Oh that's very simple." Firestorm told her "While the helmet was down over his eyes, I also managed to rearrange the molecular structure of his remote, inside and out."

"You just managed to destroy the greatest mind in the universe." Dr. Rivera berated him "Now it will never be the same without him."

"Oh you'll get over it." Firestorm assured her "Unless he had a hold on you with his mind-control."

"What are you talking about?" Dr. Rivera demanded "He never used that on me, I loved him." That last statement left not only the Nuclear man, but also A-bomb and the Vision shocked and bewildered.

"Internet romances." Firestorm muttered, A-Bomb and Vision nodded in utter agreement.

SHIELD Headquarters, Washington DC; Earth-616

"We are all grateful for your help." Director Fury told the young heroes "I really hope that some of you can come over to Earth-616 to help with some of our own personal problems."

"That would be nice Colonel." Spider-Man answered "But in the meantime, we'll need to get back to Earth-38 in order to catch up with other things."

"So what's going to happen with Ultron?" Firestorm asked.

"Come with me, I'll show you." Vision answered, he led the group down a hallway to a private hanger where Ultron was being confined. They looked in and saw Ultron, or rather what was left of Ultron, in a position that made him look like he was in a coma.

"You know, I can't help feeling sorry for him." Green Lantern II admitted, the others nodded in solemn agreement.

"Rest assured that he will receive the best of care." Vision told him before they all turned to leave and go back to Earth-38.

"How about that, I outsmarted a highly advanced super genius!" Firestorm boasted.

"Sure you did." Kyle answered without turning around.

"Good for you Stormy." Spider-Man complimented, the others all uttered their own agreements without turning around, leaving Firestorm dumbfounded.

"So unbelievably uncool." He grumbled to himself, before Professor Stein's voice took over.

"We should all be pleased with how we do our work Ronald." He told him inside his head "Especially without having to express our pride. Now I am glad that you managed to come up with a plan to defeat Ultron, but don't let it go to your head."

"Okay, I hear you." Ronnie answered before turning to leave to join the others. But as soon they left the hanger, Ultron's body started to move.

As it turned out, the corrupt AI was not entirely knocked out as they believed that he was. He had been faking it all along 'When I get my chance, I will escape from here and exact my revenge. Not only on Spider-Man and his new friends, but also that meddlesome bundler Firestorm."

While he was thinking of revenge, a swirling vortex suddenly appeared in the hanger right next to him 'How did this happen' he thought to himself. He concentrated and the vortex disappeared, Ultron was very surprised and so he tried it again, the vortex reappeared in a different part of the hanger and disappeared again.

'So the scumbags thought they had me beaten for certain.' Ultron thought with a sneer 'Well now I know that the so-called accident caused by Firestorm, has not only expanded my mind but enabled me to open breaches to other earths.'

So now Ultron knew that he no longer needed the inter-dimensional device in order to travel to other earths, and that his time for escape would arrive. He would also have to time it right, and correctly. But for now, he would have to wait patiently and content with thoughts of revenge against Spider-Man, Firestorm, and all the other heroes.

Here's the last half of 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' folks, I did mean to update this in the week right after New Year's Day, but I've had my mind on other different things. Furthermore, my own version of Ultron will able to open breaches and teleport to other Earths in both Marvel and DC universes. I had wanted to make his situation very similar to Grodd's in that Justice League two-parter, 'The Brave and The Bold'. It was some heck of a cliffhanger, and very much similar to the ending of a TV episode. Now you all might hear from Ultron in the not-too distant future, but just not in this story.

What Donna had just accomplished, was very similar to what her sister Diana had done in 'The Brave and The Bold'.

Now I hope that you all liked the Transformers references used when Ultron took control of the soldiers who were guarding the air base, and when Spider-Man told his teammates to "ROLL OUT!"

Starring the Voices of:

Loren Lester as Nightwing

Tara Strong as Batgirl

Grey DeLisle as Donna Troy

Yuri Lowenthal as Spider-Man

Will Friedle as Green Lantern II

Seth Green as the A-Bomb

PJ Byrnes as Firestorm

Stephen Tobolowsky as Professor Martin Stein

Shemar Moore as Cyborg

Danica McKellar as Miss Martian

Frank Welker as Ultron

Peter Cullen as the Vision

Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson

Kevin Michael Richardson as Nick Fury

Anyway I promise to get Chapter 19 updated very soon, but don't expect how soon, however I'm planning to also update the first half of 'The Once and Future Thing' in my one and only "JLU Spider-Friends" spin-off. So keep your fingers crossed and just post your reviews below.