Chapter 10

***Chris/Superman pov"

Chris was looking at the large humanoid hawk in front of him, it was the same one he saved, but now it had a large helmet on, and in his hand, he held what looked like a mace made out of pure energy, and on the other, he seemed to have this strange golden ring with a green gem in the center, and Chris could see he was covered in the green energetic aura, much like his brother Dave.

But he could only ask him at the moment, "How do you know my name Volatilia-Sapian? I never gave it to you."

"When I came to in your fortress, you're A.I told me a little about you, and my name is Mandulian by the way." He finished the last part with a tilting of his helmeted head towards both Chris and Da'moor.

Chris nodded his head and then said, "Alright, now, I got to know now why us destroying that piece would destroy the earth?"

He took a deep breath before answering, "while it's true what the Appoplexian said about all Quarth ships being connected to the Homeworld, they had changed tactics, they saw that we went after that part, and the alliance also opted to leave several "surprises", and the resulting explosions crippled their war efforts, so the Quarth decided to change tactics, and they modified that equipment, it would start to collapse on itself, and create a black hole instead."

Both Chris' and Da'moor's eyes widened at that, and then Da'moor spoke up, "so what do you suggest we do? Let this vessel be?"

Mandulian shook his head and said, "no, there is something we can do to prevent that, we need to damage this ship so bad and then destroy that piece, after that it will simply explode, and won't create a black hole, the downsides are that it won't send it back to their homeworld, and you probably want the ship to be out of orbit when it does explode."

Chris and Da'moor nodded their heads respectively, and then Chris turned towards the Hawk and said, "ok then, lead the way."

Mandulian nodded and scanned the room they were in, quickly enough he fired up his energy mace, and smashed a wall that looked different after it was smashed open, they looked on to see a long stretching corridor that seemed to house many maintenance-related things, and then Mandulian turned towards the two of them and said, now here, you can start wrecking, just that the Quarth's equipment is highly susceptible to the cold if we could somehow drastically lower the temperature in here, that will be great…"

Chris, at hearing that grinned and just said, "Get behind me," they looked at him confused but complied none the less, he took a deep breath into his super powerful lungs and puckered his lips into a small o, he blew the air threw it, effectively condensing it and making it cool rapidly, the result? A white arctic-like breath came out of his mouth, freezing anything] that came in contact with it solid.

After he was done, several of the maintenance appliance's lights started to blare red, and eventually little smoke got out as they were getting destroyed by the extreme cold they were just exposed to.

Chris turned towards them and judging by the widening of their eyes and their jaws being nearly on the floor, they were not expecting that at all.

Da'moor asked him, "H-how did you…?"

Chris smiled and said, "Simple, I have very powerful lung capacity, so I just condensed the air so fast and powerfully that it froze anything it touched."

They seemed to accept that, and then Mandulian spoke, "alright, now we better get a move on, if they weren't alerted to our presence before, they are definitely now, and do make sure to inflict as much damage as possible."

Chris and Da'moor both nodded their head, and Da'moor started to position himself on all fours, and after winding himself up, he blasted off, running like a wild panther all the way, and making sure his claws dug into anything they could.

Chris turned towards Mandulian and said," Well, we can't let him have all the fun, as he blasted off to the corridor after the alien black panther, making sure to use his heat vision to cut anything that looked remotely important, not too far behind them was Mandulian, in addition to the energy mace he was using, he also used his green lantern ring to damage the vessel as much as he could from the inside.

 ***Dave/Green Lantern pov***

Dave was on the ground making a shield with his ring as a mech trained his guns at him and fired up a barrage of lasers at him, thanks to his combat experience he was able to keep a level head, but he was exhausted from the fighting, he didn't know if his new weapon had limited supply of energy, so he needed to finish this off quickly, so he quickly made another energy construct, this one of a massive rail gun, and fired it off at the mechs in front of him, it just so happened that they stood in a line behind each other.

The blast was massive, but Dave had made sure to put ear covers on himself and his teammates at ground level so that their eardrums wouldn't burst.

He looked at their wonder woman as they were now calling her, she was cutting down enemies left and right, but they just kept on coming, 'it was a war of exhaustion!' Dave realized that earlier, the enemy had numbers on their side, and as far as they were trying, they weren't succeeding in culling their numbers enough to make a meaningful dent.

Just then Dave saw the sky turn dark, and then he saw streaks of lightning dance between the clouds, but instead of thunder like he expected to hear, he heard a billowing laugh, and before he knew it, several lightning bolts hit the ground killing a large number of the enemies, enough to make a dent.

Then he heard Diana speak, "By the gods!" and then heard the sound of whipping and the yelling of "Hya!" and saw him coming towards them, on a flying chariot harnessed by two massive goats.

His head was covered by a winged helmet, but his flowing red hair was still showing, and he could see a crazed smile plastered all over that man's face, then he saw that man starting to make his descent towards them, and when he landed, Dave noticed that the man was dressed in a similar way to a Viking and that he was not alone in his chariot, with him was another man, this one blonde with a beard dressed in medieval-like armor, and there was this strange sword strapped to his waist, and for some reason, Dave felt his power ring starting to react to it.

As the red-headed man stepped out of his chariot, Dave noticed the particular war hammer that was strapped to his waist and immediately knew who it was, he turned to the man and said, "Thor the thunderer I presume?"

The now-named God looked at him, gave him a big smile, and said, "You presume correctly! And what might you be called Mortal?"

"They call me Green Lantern, these are Captain America, Spider-Man, Aqua-Mariner and Wonder Woman, we have one more teammate up in the air trying to deal with the mothership," Dave said as he pointed upwards towards the ship.

Thor just seemed to nod, and said, "aye t is a day of battleth yond requires many of us to op'rate wh'rev'r is did need," Dave was confused for a moment, but then he figured it was something along the lines of, 'yes it is a day of battle that requires many of us to operate wherever is needed,' he remembered a little bit then he remembered the man that was accompanying the Norse god of thunder, and he asked him, "whose your friend?"

Thor smirked as he pointed behind him at the man clad in armor and said, "This h're is Arthur Uth'rson, an fusty comrade i hadst not seen in millennia, hath met that gent in the city thee m'rtals calleth london, and bethought we'd beest able to holp 'round h're."

Dave nearly had an aneurysm trying to understand that Shakespearian speech, but then his ring glowed and said this to him, 'This here is Arthur Utherson, an old comrade I had not seen in millennia, met him in the city you mortals call London, and thought we'd be able to help around here.'

His eyes widened at the realization of who this man was and he said, "As in King Arthur Pendragon?" 

The blond king nodded and just then did Dave noticed the crown on the man's head, and then the king spoke, "I do apologize, I remember battling at the center of the city when all of a sudden I was grabbed from behind and Thor finishing the battle for us, he then dragged me all the way here!"

Dave let out an exasperated sigh if he was indeed powerful enough to prevent a force of Quarth from taking over London all by himself, he was indeed a powerhouse they absolutely needed what with Chris taking care of the problem at its source.

Then Dave said, "Well then, we're glad to have you with us!" as he stretched out his hand for them to shake.

The god smiled wildly and grabbed Dave by the forearm with a gloved hand, and said, "And we are glad to be here mortal!"

Dave's eyes widened at hearing that Thor actually spoke English that was not Shakespearean, and looked at him and said, "Hey! What the hell! You spoke modern English all this time?!" and the god just grinned at him and said, "sorry, I had to tease you! Ever since I got back to Midgard I heard about this fictional version of me who apparently only spoke that way and everybody understood him. But that is a tale for another day, right now we have this enemy to deal with." As he finished his words, his face took a much darker expression, and he was starting to pull out his hammer.

Dave looked on to where the thunder god was looking and saw that several hundred Quarth units were coming towards them, Dave was about to speak up to his team, but before he could do that, he felt electricity in the air, and when he turned his head towards Thor, he saw streaks of electricity running through his beard, and he yelled out, "For Midgard!" as he threw his hammer forward, and him running after it to face off the Quarth by himself.

After that, Dave and the rest of the Justice Avengers had no other choice but to leap into battle after him, with Dave already making a giant construct of the iron Giant that shot lasers at all the Quarth units.

***Chris/Superman pov***

Chris was now finishing up dismantling another part of the ship's maintenance when all of a sudden he got a call on an unknown device, he felt around his ear and found a device, he pulled it out, and saw that it was made out of green energy, similar to the one used by the power rings held by Mandulian and his brother.

He quickly put it back on his ear and heard Mandulian's voice calling out to him, "Superman!" as Chris asked him to call him from now on.

"Yes, Hawkman, I'm here."

"I need you to come by my location, I'm nearing the main bridge, we have a real shot of finishing this invasion by ourselves!"

Chris' eyes widened at that, and he quickly said, "on my way." As he quickly scanned the ship looking for Mandulian's signature, when he found it, he decided to throw subtlety aside and burst threw several floors above him, as he started to do that, alarms were blaring all around them, but Chris didn't care at this point, at one floor he stopped since he saw Da'moor tearing up some Quarth soldier apart, as he looked at him finishing off the last one, he cleared his throat aloud, "ahem."

The alien panther turned his head towards him so fast, and still had a berserk expression on his face, he was panting heavily, but as soon as he saw Chris, he started to calm down, Chris just looked at him with concern and asked, "you ok?"

Da'moor nodded his head and said, "Yeah… just needed to offload some pent-up rage after being caged by these fragging nobodies for that long."

Chris just nodded his head, and said, "ok, but if you're ready, I have a great opportunity for you to offload a lot more rage If you want."

Da'moor had looked quizzically but then nodded his head.

"Good, then hang on," Chris said, as he grabbed him by the scruff of his neck, and he pointed his other fist forward, and flew up, continuing to make his way toward Mandulian.

Soon he burst through the last floor and found himself facing the Biggest Quarth he had seen so far, he stood much taller than the rest of the Quarth, and he had a blue crown on his head, and in his hands, he held a giant orange great axe, with silver blades, the alien hawk had his shield up, but he was loosing, it was clear that he was still recovering from his earlier injuries.

Chris then gently placed Da'moor on the ground, but he was still floating in the air, his arms crossed over his broad chest, the big Quarth looked at him, and sneered as he spoke, "And what do we have here? A lone Viltronian, oh yes, I know what you are, now you are impressive, but you are still very young compared to the rest of your kind, and you are still weak in comparison."

Chris heard all that bravado, but then he noticed that with each word, he was taking a step back with each word, which meant one thing…

"You're scared of me… all that talk, and yet you still don't really know the limits of my ability, and after your invasion today, you don't know how much I've grown in strength…"

Da'moor then sniffed the air and grinned while saying, "Oh yeah, they're scared alright, I can smell it on them."

Just then Chris's super hearing had picked up something that made him smile, and then he turned towards the leader and said, "I would suggest that you would leave, this planet is under my protection." He emphasized the last part by flaring up his heat vision in the process.

The leader, in a last-ditch effort of bravado asked him, "Oh, yes? You and what army?"

Just then the side of the ship was hit by something very powerful, and the inside of the bridge was now exposed to the open air, Chris took a quick look at the object that hit the ship, and his eyes widened at the sight of the war hammer that had the short handle connected to it, but then he heard someone yelling "Hya!" and saw a man, or rather a god if his guess was correct, riding inside the ship in a chariot harnessed by two goats, and with him was King Arthur, right behind them was Dave encasing all the none flyers in a giant bubble, but as soon as they landed, he let go of the construct, and each member took his position.

The large red-headed man, pretty much confirmed that he was Thor the moment he called his hammer back to him, but Chris just fell back on his mythology studies, and realized that this was how Thor pretty much was described in Norse mythology.

Now he was facing the Quarth leader, and he uncrossed his hands and he balled them into fists, and put himself in an aerial fighting position, while saying, "This army."

Just then King Kalthor had jumped with his trident toward the large yellow alien, and proceeded to stab him in the leg, the alien let out a scream but was quickly silenced as the Atlantean King took out the Trident and stabbed him in the throat.

The large alien quickly collapsed making gurgling sounds as he chocked on his own blood, then Chris heard his brother asking him, "all better?"

The Atlantean had an expression of catharsis on his face as he nodded his head and said, "yes, much better."

Chris then looked around and saw there was another Quarth around, and Chris pointed at him, and called out, "you there!" the Quarth stiffened at that, but complied, "Y-yes?"

"Tell your superiors that from now on, the earth is off limits, it is under our protection, and call back your forces, now!"

Chris finished that last part by slightly illuminating his eyes, which had achieved the desired effect, as he was now running towards the control Pannel and called through the communication system, "All Quarth troops retreat! We have been defeated! Fall back to the ship!"

Chris flew out of the ship and using his superior vision, he scanned the planet and saw that indeed many Quarth Ships were now returning to their mothership, then Chris said to his team, "I suggest you find something to stand on that isn't bolted to this ship."

They seem to understand his intention, as Dave immediately formed another bubble around the none flyers, Da'moor included, while Arthur and Thor just climbed back onto the Chariot, and then after they had made their distance away from the ship, Chris turned towards Mandulian and asked him, "is it ready?"

The hawk simply nodded as he showed him a hand-held detonator, Chris just nodded his head, and Mandulian pressed the button, as soon as he did that, Chris heard an explosion, and then the ship to warp itself out of existence, and vanished from their sights.

Now they were making their way down to earth, and then they were met by the people looking at them with awe, Chris knew that while that battle was won, there has been a lot of work left to be done, he started to scan the area, and saw people trying to free themselves from under the rubble, he quickly relayed the information about the trapped civilians to his teammates, and they quickly went on to try and save as many people as they could.

It was late night when the army came, but funnily enough it was not tanks on anything special, it was just a small unit a 10 soldiers that came to help, the man in charge introduced himself, "Superman, I am Sgt, Dan Hopkins, we are here to help out with the cleanup."

Dave looked at him and saluted while saying, "Sgt, David Johnson, navy seals, took you long enough to get here, we are nearly done here."

The sergeant quickly responded, "s-sorry sir, we tried to get here as soon as we could, but the hire-ups wouldn't give us the green light."

While they were talking, Chris scanned those soldiers and saw something very disturbing, they were all enhanced, much like David Clark, so he turned towards the Sergent and spoke, "The Pentagon didn't want to reveal their super soldiers just yet."

All of them looked at him while he just pointed to the side of his head and said, "X-ray vision, let me see all kinds of dirty little secrets."

Sergent Dan Hopkins just gulped and said, "well we still would appreciate if you would let us help."

Chris didn't need to answer as David Clark just stepped in and said, "There's no need for that Sgt, they already have a super soldier helping them out." He walked towards the soldiers, still clad in his Captain America outfit, the soldiers widened their eyes, as they asked, "Captain America?"

"for the purpose of this conversation? Yes, you may call me that."

"Sir, with all due respect, you don't have the authority to-"

"Actually I do," Chris intervened, "I have put the earth under my protection, and the city of New York more precisely, now please get back to your base, and tell Mr. Pines to expect a visit from me soon."

Their eye's widened at that, but they soon stepped back, and Dave turned to his brother and asked, "do you really want to make an enemy out of the U.S. army?"

He shook his head and said, "I'm not making an enemy out of the U.S. army, just the corrupt faction that is growing inside them, the ones that are responsible for the human experimentation started by Steve's crazy science."

Peter then just shook his head and said, "whatever dude, I just hope it won't come back to bite us in the ass."

***Hannibal Pines pov***

Hannibal was in his office, finishing his phone call with General Naird telling him to look out for the one going around dressed as Superman saving people, all the while Hannibal looked at the TV where they showed said person, with the news caption, "Superman is real, and he's an American!"

Though what General Naird told him on the phone was about an unforeseen development, when they finally had received the green light to send their super soldiers out to the field, they were already way deep into the aftermath of the battle, and it seemed that the Superhero teamed Called the 'Justice Avengers' led by this superman were blocking them from assisting in the cleanup efforts, and it seemed that this Superman knew that Hannibal was behind these super soldiers, which was disconcerting.

But later when regular army personnel came, he greeted them with open arms and let them assist in whatever was left, so it seems his issue was with their super soldiers specifically.

Then there was this… Green lantern, Sgt David Johnson, he was intrigued by how he acquired a power that belonged in the realm of comic books, but then again, if Superman was real, anything was possible, it seemed that this David Johnson would be called in for questioning after this.

Then there was the matter of this Superman, he seemed to know that he was behind the super soldier program, and that was concerning, especially when he said he'd pay him a visit.

Speaking of which, just then he heard a knock on his window, now his office was on the top floor of the skyscraper, he turned slowly and saw him there floating outside his window, his arms crossed over his chest, was the Superman.

Hannibal tapped a button and said, "Ah yes, the Superman, I wanted to thank you for saving us from The Quarth invasion, please come in, could I interest you in coffee or are you an ice tea type of guy?"

Superman didn't react to that, only frowning his features even more, then Hannibal said, "look, clearly you have a problem with me, and I'd like to know what it is?"

"I know you murdered a man in cold blood trying to cover your illegal human experiments."

At that point, Hannibal's heartbeat raced, and if this Superman was like the comic book version, he heard all of it and was checking his tells like a lie detector, then Hannibal said to him, "Well, it's not a matter of what you think you know, It's a matter of what can you prove." He kept a calm expression, and then Superman, said to him, "We'll see."

Then Hannibal said, "You know, I also read a lot of Superman comic books when I was younger, but I eventually had to grow up, unlike you it seems…"

he tried to rile him up, but he didn't react, so he continued, "As a kid, I wasn't really a fan of Superman, I was a fan of Lex Luther, you know, a self-made man, didn't take shit from nobody, not the boy scout like superman was that everybody wished they'd be."

Then Superman said, "I'll be keeping my eye on you." As he started to fly off, then Hannibal closed the window and said to himself, "Well… to every Superman, there must always be a Lex Luther." As he poured himself a cup of whisky.

***Quarth high command pov***

The remaining Quarth troops that were sent back home by the Viltronian and his allies, were now finishing the report they gave to the Quarth high command.

"And are you sure it was a Viltronian?"

"Yes lord J'koor, most definitely, but it seems that he goes by the allies of Superman." The Quarth soldier polled out a holo screen and showed a picture of the Viltronian, and then said, "We fought to the best of our abilities!" the soldier was talking to the figure standing behind Lord J'koor, who seemed to look on through a window on the planet while his arms were crossed behind his back, he gave a quick glance back towards the soldier and said, "evidently not." As his eyes glowed an ominous red, and he shot a ray of heat vision at the soldier's head, killing him immediately.

The room was quiet, and Lord J'koor said, "This is troubling news, the Viltronian…"

"is of no concern, if he is as powerful as they claim, I'll be sure to take care of him myself." He said as he turned completely around revealing a human-like face that was hardened after years of conflict, and a white mustache adorning it.

***General Naird pov***

The general was in his home office, finishing off a conversation he had with Hannibal Pines about the Superman and realized that he could be a great detriment to their future plans, but the problem was, how do you defeat a Superman?

Then he noticed his 10-year-old son was on the floor next to him, he was reading a comic book that had drawings of Superman and Batman on it, so he turned to his son and asked, "Jacob? What are you reading their buddy?"

"Oh just a comic book dad."

"What is it about?"

"about one of the many times Batman kicked Superman's ass."

He was shocked at hearing that, so he asked, "But how could that be? Nobody can beat Superman, He's… well… Superman!"

"Dad, with enough Prep time, Batman can beat God himself, in fact, he did so in the comics many times before, and lived!"

"you don't say kiddo…"

Later that evening, the general was in his office looking for several applicants for the new project je was heading, while simultaneously talking on the phone with one of his men.

"Hay Reggie, I'm going to need to for you to start a new file for me for a new project, what is it called?" He stopped for a moment and said, "Let's call it Project Bat." As he closed the folder he was holding and on the cover was a drawing of the bat symbol.

 (A/N hey there guys! I am back with another chapter!

First of all, JThorpe5: thank you! That is what I was going for! And yeah, I mean he is his own version so it made since that would do his own thing, as for you suggestions, I might use them in the future. Thank you!

Second of all, this version of thor is not a mix of the marvel and DC versions, he is a mix of the marvel and myth versions, had to make that clear.

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I hope it was a satisfying end to the whole invasion saga, and what you thought of the little teaser I had left you? Let me know in the comments section.

Until next time, you guys are awesome!

Bookwormjohnny2 out!