War

The Earth was under a huge pressure that most people in this modern era after WW2 would never understand. Yet, those who survived those times, understood more than ever that the survival of mankind would be decided soon.

"What were those guys thinking? Seriously, who's in charge of this and why drag us into it? What kind of bullshit is this?"

Tony was livid looking at what model of Avengers Fury was able to put together. In this world of Sentinels and Sentries, Fury tried even harder than ever to find ever sort of special person he could find.

Tony Stark the Iron Man, Steve Rogers the Captain, Bruce Banner the Hulk, Clint Barton the Hawkeye, Barbara Morse the Mockingbird, Sam Wilson the Falcon, Rhodes the War Machine and Two surprising additions of a newly bailed inmate Scott Lang the Ant Man and his babysitter Hope VanDyne the Wasp.

"Are we sure we should even get involved in this mess?" Bobbi asked her teammates.

"I agree, the metahumans left and started their own thing is a good thing for everyone. Humans have more space and jobs with people expecting the climate to even change for the better. Why are we fighting them a planet away?" Scott chimes in.

"I hate to admit it but they're right. This isn't our fight and you all know it" Steve spoke as he glanced at those around the Avengers HQ table "That's why this time, the Avengers aren't going in as a combat unit. We're going in as rescue and containment. No matter where those sentinels launch we have to assume that whol

e area will become a war zone, our job is to keep that zone as small as possible until the dust settles."

The table was quiet as everyone thought of the scale of battle about to pursue and all had a single question but didn't ask it. Well until our resident laid back pessimistic rager spoke out.

"Can we even participate in a battle of that size? No offense but I'd hate to see what they have So much confidence in to dare declare war on a planet of super powered people."

Yes, Bruce's words naturally awoken the entourage. What confidence did they have when Sentry was beaten, did they still dare openly provoke like this?

"Thats not the worst part of it."

Heads turned towards the opening sliding doors as a bald black man and a heroic Caucasian walked into the room. "More than 40 countries globally has voted in favor of this war. They have also agreed to simultaneously launch sentinels to eradicate the hidden dangers. However the ones who didn't agree were all apparently not informed of the decision before hand. There's something going on behind this attack."

"Wait more than 40 countries? Who could possibly have the power to influence over 40 countries without anyone even catching trace of them?" Sam brought up

"Cut off one head and two more grow back," Captain America suddenly spoke up.

"You don't mean--"

"Exactly, only something like Hydra could stay so quietly hidden yet still coordinate more than 40 countries at once. They've done similar before back then, I don't doubt them capable of it now. Tony-"

"Already had Jarvis look into the 43 countries that collaborated and it seems as if the internal situations aren't as clean as they appear. Of those 0 dead, 8 missing, 13 of them missing various credentials or codes and the rest signed off voluntarily."

"Well that doesn't sound fishy at all" Hope scoffed.

"So what do we do now" Bobbi asked Fury.

"Now, we change objectives,' Captain spoke up "Bobbi, Clint, you're headed to Australia, Hope and Scott Europe, Sam you're coming with me, Tony you start in New York, while Bruce and Rhodes are here waiting at HQ. Our main task now is while the chaos is going on we're going to uproot Hydra. After this incident is done there should be no more Hydra, no more concerns."

"Hopefully" Hope murmured to herself still feeling uneasy.

On the other side, on an undisclosed location somewhere in the northern part of the pacific, stood an unidentified military base. Samuel Sterns stood there with Ex General Ross as they stood ready to win for humanity.

"All systems in order and we are officially prepared for any response they could make. All we're waiting on now is the okay order sir and we can launch."

Ross stood there listening to the report of his subordinate as he immersed himself in self satisfaction. 'They told me to leave overwatch alone, we couldn't beat them they said. Now watch, as I General Thunderbolt Theodore Ross singlehandedly wipe out the mutant infestation'.'

"Sir what are our orders?"

Still immersed in his delusions Ross was about to speak up when Stern next to him spoke first "Launch a total of 1500 to attract their attention, once we've concentrated their numbers, we send the rest out. Keep the Sentries for now."

The little scientist watched the increasingly darkening face of Ross his superior and made a quick decision "Yes sir, right away!" before running off, 'These guys are crazy, why did I pick paper instead of rock. Just my luck to have to get involved with these madmen.'

Stern on the other hand looked at Ross and said, "Starting tomorrow we can divide spoils amongst ourselves, but General let me remind you, we are allies for now."

Stern stopped paying attention to Ross after making sure the red hue creeping up his neck had started to recede.

"For now Stern, for now, but order my men again and ally or not. I'll smash you forehead open myself. LAUNCH THE DAMN ROBOTS ALREADY."

The two wisely ignored each other as a multitude of scientists all worked at different terminals to launch the beginning of a war launched worldwide.

In New York

"America, today is a dark day as the battle that determines the fate of the planet looms over our heads. Avengers, and other government agencies have refused to support this battle on grounds of an unnecessary war. Unnecessary or not we no longer have the leisure to choose. As of now over 1000 sentinels have just been confirmed to have launched--"

Watching the evening news Kamala sat in her living room with her father watching local news hero J. Jonah. Jameson talk about the upcoming war.

"Baba do they really need to fight, they've already left the planet, I lost so many friends overnight, what's the point of this stupid fight? Invincible is q hero and even now we're still fighting against them? Why?"

Yusuf Khan was anxious but steady as a father of multiple years normally is "Its because he's the hero we didn't deserve sweetie. We traded his compassion for scorn, yet he still never hated us and just left us alone. But don't forget sweetie he's Invincible for a reason. If you're that worried just make an extra prayer, huh how about it."

"Pray, pray, pray, that's all you ever say baba," the girl said her attention glued to the screen watching hundreds of purple and silver robots launch. "I just hope everything could be okay."

The young dreamer kept staring and said to herself maybe if I had the power this war wouldn't need to happen.

Outside of Mars' atmosphere hundreds of faint white dots flew in formation as Logan led them all neatly. The first wave of battle only involved the white lanterns, the violet lanterns except for Natalia were currently being loaned out to ally forces for easy space travel.

Seeing the dense figures leaving Earth's orbit, Logan turned to his soldiers and cheered "Alright men, you have the best weapons and best nation in the universe standing behind you. If our big guns need to come out for this I'll be embarrassed. If I'm embarrassed then I'm embarrassing you. Understood! So not a single scrap metal left in piece. Only Pieces!"

'ONLY PIECES!'

With the war cry dissipating into the vacuum of space Logan lead his white lanterns straight into battle. After all they couldn't afford to lose here