Chapter 55 - Dragon Head

[June of 2012]

[New York City]

3rd PoV

Tony Stark looked at his holo projector with a tinge of surprise on his face. What made him this interested was the fact that he is currently seeing a literal head of a dragon poking its head out of a portal.

"What the fuck is wrong with people and their obsession with portals." He sighed in frustration as he drank from his glass.

Thud.

He then placed his glass on the table and then suddenly spread both of his hands to the side. "Jarvis, do it."

[Yes, sir.] Jarvis replied with a calm voice.

Swoosh

The section of the floor where his display of expensive wines and alcohol suddenly caved in and retracted, displaying an amazing show of technology as the pieces of his Iron Man Suit came out and began attaching to his body, one by one.

Tink

After completing his transformation, Tony stood in front of his floor-to-ceiling window and was ready to fly away but then a Jarvis interrupted him.

[Sir, The director of S.H.I.E.L.D is calling you.] Jarvis informed.

Tony accepted the call through his armor as the voice of Fury made itself known.

"Don't get involved in the ongoing battle right now." Fury said with an absolute tone.

Tony stalled for a moment after hearing him like that but then replied back with a smirk "Okay~"

Fury knows that there's something wrong by how Stark sounds as quickly said "Hey, I am telling you, stop and don't get invol–"

"Bye."

But Tony being just Tony Stark, he ended the call and then flew away after the window slid to the side.

—-—

On the other side, Steve Rogers, also suited up after seeing the rampage that is currently happening, caused by some big ass rabbits as he couldn't help but sigh to himself.

Thinking how it was so much easier in the past where he just have to deal with a skull faced nazi, but now, all kinds of shit are happening everyday that cannot even keep up.

Coupled with the fact that he also has to catch up with the new trendy songs nowadays, this just keeps stressing him up, if not for being a super soldier, then he was sure that he would have already collapsed from all the shit that he is always facing everyday.

—-—

[Random Citizen's PoV]

Seeing big ass rabid rabbits running around, trying to bite off people's heads was already enough for me, but seeing a literal head of a dragon poking out of a hole in space itself was just asking too much.

Fortunately, there's those heroes always protecting us. My favorite hero, Psionix, just evacuated everyone from the vicinity of the battle into the far side of the city.

Though I'm not pretty sure how did he missed me, but this is still an opportunity for me to capture this moment and who knows, maybe this whole battle that I'm currently recording is gonna rake me up some money that will be enough to make me quit my boring and arduous job.

Hiding behind a large chunk of solid stone, I carefully and skillfully aimed my good old camera at the scene, trying to not miss anything.

I mostly focused the camera to Psionix, but I focused on the dragon after it made itself known.

Riiiip!

Crack!

The dragon continued trying to fit its head into the portal as it growled loudly. It was so loud that the sound even shook a few rubbles from here and there.

I then saw Psionix waving his hand as the blue cube-shaped shield around the portal and the dragon began shrinking.

He's trying to squeeze the dragon to death?

"Grrrr."

But to my, and everyone's surprise, it didn't do anything as it just broke into pieces after the dragon shook its head strongly.

Psionix suddenly backed away after shield thingy of his broke as he landed beside the four super powered people that were all wearing casual clothing while the elastic one were wearing a white lab suit.

The next moment, I realized why Psionix suddenly back away as the dragon suddenly stopped growling in every direction as it took a deep breath and blows a sea of fire from its mouth.

The sea of fire was quick to spread as Andrew and the sexy blonde woman conjured the shield things around them as the flames passed without hurting them. The flames continued as it began to get bigger and bigger, looking as if its approaching me...

Wait...

Oh fuck!

I quickly turned around to try and run but the sea of fire was too fast as it quickly caught up to the pathetic me that didn't even make it far enough as quickly lost my breath.

Fuck! I should've exercised more.

But none of that matters now as the flames eventually caught up to me. I Instinctively closed my eyes, waiting for the immense pain and the inevitable death.

But after a few seconds, I didn't felt a thing as i opened one of my eyes to take a peek.

Oh. There's a shield around me?

Turning around and lookind to the far front where the heroes were, I saw my favorite featureless hero, slightly waving his hand at me, signaling me to get to safety as he turned around again and looked at the dragon.

But I'm a stubborn bastard as i didn't listen to my hero and even began walking towards their direction sneakily while my trusted camera captured everything.

Boom~

Swoosh!

A booming sound that seemed to have come from far away suddenly reached my ears as I strained my neck and looked up to the sky.

There, I saw the billionaire avenger, Iron Man himself, flying to the scene after showing off by breaking the sound barrier.

Like how can he even do that, shouldn't the force of breaking the sound barrier affecting his body even with that armor on? Whatever, maybe its the effect of his advanced technology bullshit.

Anyway, I bravely hid behind another large stone but I was careful to not touch it as I can see and feel that its still smoking hot from that recent attack of that damned dragon.

I focused my camera to the just-arrived hero as I also looked around the surroundings and wasn't able to see any choppers of the news channels or any

as-brave-as-i-am reporters.

Though the the military soldiers that arrived earlier seemed to have retreated at some point in time seeing that they are useless.

Hehe, this shit right now is definitely gonna net me some good amount of money..

—-—

3rd PoV

Andrew turned back his head to Tony Stark who just landed as an idea formed in his mind.

He then flew near the guy as he spoke "Stark. Distract it for a bit using your weapons and give a few moments and I will take down that giant lizard for good." Andrew didn't give him any chance to reply as he flew further back and sat on the ground.

He then brought his palms to face each other as a ball of energy manifested and began getting stronger in its energy signature while it's size remained the same.

What he had been doing since earlier – like him not giving even a third of what he can actually do – was to give the illusion to the people – specially the government – that he was currently not too powerful to the point of uncontrollable

With this, the idea of suddenly nuking him wouldn't surface the minds of those idle dregs and he can continue expanding his influence to the people and the globe in a peaceful pace.

"Tsk." Tony Stark – who had the idea of flirting with Sue Storm for a bit – clicked his tongue but he got to it immediately as he knows that this is no laughing matter.

He flew up to the level of the head of dragon that is currently, once again, taking a deep breath, preparing its devastating attack. Tony stopped in front of its head as he pointed his hands at it while small missile compartment opened on the shoulder of his suit.

Eeeeeng!

Swooosh!

The repulsor beams and missiles came out and struck the head of the dragon at the same time as the attack of the latter was halted, making it furious.

Though, to the surprise of Tony, there's little to no damage to the dragon as the attack just made it more determined to claw its way in as it brought its clawed hands to the rim of the portal again, trying to make it bigger once again.

Johnny Storm also known as Human Torch also flew up to the level of Tony as he took a deep breath and gathered his strength. He then pointed his palms forward as a beam of concentrated heat came out and struck the dragon.

Unfortunately, he was a bad match to the dragon as it has high resistance to its own element as it just shrugged off his attack that could possibly scratch The Hulk and Thor.

"Back off kid, your power seemed to have no effect on Mr Angry Lizard here." Tony quipped as multiple compartments within his suit opened up and revealed different kinds of weapon.

Tony chose to attack using a different type as the small missiles traveled through the air and struck the dragon.

Zzzst.

Crassp!

This time, the attack seemed to have effect as the missile that Stark just used contained ice properties that he hoped to counter the what he assumed as fire-based dragon.

"GROOOWWWL!!" The dragon became even more furious as it quickly went back to what it was doing, which was enlarging the portal to fit its entire body.

"Guys! I'm about to finish this in a moment!" Reed shouted at them without looking as he diligently continued fiddling at his device, which was the reason for what is currently happening right now.

At this time, Andrew decided that it was about time to act as he began acting that he was finished with the small work that he just did "Back away!"

A blue, basketball-sized energy ball currently rests at the top of his palm as Andrew began flying again, stopping at the level of the dragon.

"Hey, what the hell is that?!" Tony asked with great surprise in his voice as Jarvis was currently reporting to him that it was detecting dangerous amount of energy readings from that little ball of energy at Andrew's hands.

Andrew thought for a moment but couldn't come up with a cool sounding name as he just replied with a "Energy Ball?"

"Eww." Tony expressed his disgust at his boring naming sense but remembered what Andrew said earlier as he immediately flew down and landed beside the smoking hot Susan Storm.

Johnny Storm also realized what Andrew was about to do as he also quickly flew down and slapped the armored hands of Tony that is asking for Susan's permission to kiss the top of hands in a gentleman greeting.

Reed Richards didn't care whether his girlfriend was being flirted on as he continued fixing his device even when he can hear what was going on.

Andrew on the other hand, throws the energy ball without hesitation at the furious face of the dragon as it struck it immediately.

BOOOM!!

BAAANG!!

*****

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