Chapter 33: The Invasion
[Above STARK Tower]:
Above STARK Tower, the sky had opened up and an armada had descended. And even as Iron Man charged up to meet it, he knew he was in over his head.
Still he charged higher.
PRRRN!
BOOM!
PRRN!
BOOM!
His handblasts were working overtime, trying to take out as much as he could. He'd blasted through a great many number of them, before one of the Chitauri got him in the chest, making him grunt before he returned fire with multiple homing mini missiles, causing the immediate wave to go up in multiple explosions as he tried to speed past.
Still, many more escaped him and descended upon the city below, causing mass panic, destruction and chaos.
Entire chunks of buildings fell. Civilian casualties immediately began climbing. Panic was high.
Even as Thor and Loki fought, and the quinjet aided Tony to best of its ability before its controlled crashlanding, tensions were high.
Then the Leviathans entered the field and things took a turn. From the carriers, even more Chitauri invaded——Piercing into buildings and scaling skyscrapers.
The death toll was only rising.
"Stark, are you seeing this?" Steve asked through comm in stunned bewilderment.
"Seeing. Still working on believing," Iron Man replied, tailing massive beast-like carrier. "Where's Banner? Has he shown up yet?"
"Banner?" Steve asked.
"Just keep me posted," Tony replied.
Meanwhile, in space, just passing Earth's moon, Spectrion grinned, mentally giving OMNIS an order. 'OMNIS, initiate Project Manhattan. Priority Alpha.'
[Command Acknowledge.]
[Initializing... 'Project Manhattan'.]
'Good,' Lewis thought, already beginning to breach Earth's exosphere, the heat generated by the action made him look like a comet descending upon the Earth. 'With Project Manhattan active, civilian casualty rates will plummet and the defense will be cleaner and easier.'
'That said, it is about time I join the party, no? Don't want to be too late, and let the Avengers hog all the fun. After all, this is Spectrion's debut.'
With that thought, Spectrion's form speed up to a degree that he became a singular beam of golden light, speeding past continents, past oceans, towards his home.
He just hoped he wasn't too late.
Meanwhile, across the five boroughs of New York, the roofs of various warehouses opened up and entire armadas of androids ascended.
Some were familiar droids——Lewis Blake's E.D.G.E series droids——Only these were noticeably better. Faster. Less bulky.
They were E.D.G.E-1 Mark II drones.
[E.D.G.E-1 Mark II Droids Reference Image]:
These particular ones didn't have drone forms like their Mark I counterparts but they were more optimized for swift combat.
The second type of droid was a slimmer build one that was painted green and grey with black undertones. Instead of hands or blasters, they possessed circular beam palms that could heal any flesh the beam touched.
[New Droid Reference Image]:
This new droid are what Lewis called Mark I Bio-Droids. He had been working on them even after he left Earth. Because OMNIS was so powerful, it hardly matter where Lewis designed them. So long as the materials were available, OMNIS had no problem creating and manufacturing them.
These two droids types converged on New York City in the tens of thousands. They spread out across the city——The E.D.G.E-1's engaged the enemy while Bio-Droids worked on any injured they could find.
At first the civilian populace panicked seeing the droid army joining the fray. They were just being invaded by aliens; now they had to deal with rogue robots? It wasn't exactly a day to be remembered fondly of.
But then some began to notice things. Things like who these robots were targeting. What they were doing. And even the B.L.A.K.E Industries logo on their chests.
From there it didn't take long to realize that someone was helping the people.
It was then that Spectrion made his appearance.
A golden streak shot from the sky, blasted clean through the Leviathan Tony was struggling with, effectively cutting it in half before coming out the rear and hovering there, cape billowing in the wind, unmarred and unbloodied, golden in its radiance. His red and gold suit acted like a beacon in the Dark, even with the blaster in-hand.
PEWW!
PEWW!
PEWW!
Spectrion's blaster took out 6 Chitauri with only 3 blaster bolts. Then it transformed into its saber form, as, behind Spectrion's visor, twin beams glowed and, launching himself skyward towards an incoming 3 more descending Leviathans, he unleashed two devastating beams of pure golden light——Not really entirely, but possessing an sort of electric mutation; not really solar energy, but burning hotter than the surface of the Sun; and not really kinetic energy, nor true light energy, just it moved hundreds of times faster than the speed of light.
The twin beams of energies seared through flesh, scale and armour like knife through butter. It eviscerated Leviathan and Chitauri alike, leaving no survivors of the bodies it touched.
BOOOM!
BOOMM!
BOOOM!
Explosion after explosion were left in Spectrion's wake as he savagely dismantled and completely obliterated Leviathan after Leviathan.
"I am the Sun. I am the Fire. I am the Source," Spectrion's words echoed across the entire city, heard by all. "I am... SPECTRION! And you will NOT destroy my home!"
Lewis spread him arms, hovering in the eye of Tesseract's portal, his entire body emitting a radiant golden power as it appeared as if a second sun enveloped his being and the next second...
WRRRL...
WRRRLL...
It was a build up sound. That was how it started. Almost Godzilla-like in its build up sequence.
WRRRRLLL...
WRRRRRRRLLLL...
With each sound, the second star in the sky grew brighter and brighter, completely disintegrating any Chitauri who got too close. They completely turned to ashes, painfully screaming as their atomic structures began to vaporize.
Still, Lewis maintained the building charge. Kinetic energy. Solar energy. Photon energy. Electric energy. Primal solar energy. All creating a giant sun around Lewis like a mini moon the size of ⅓ of an entire city.
It was breathtaking and dangerous. All that incompatible enrgy being forced out of his body and made to form a giant sphere of energy around him? The fact that he was still adding to it without completely evisercating all five burrows of the city of New York spoke volumes to his precise control over energy.
It was an awe-inspiring sight to beheld, no doubt…
Until he unleashed it in a massive, mini-moon-sized beam of cataclysmic blasts that fired from his body——His very being——in a blast's attack 100,000x more devastating than any nuke——Directly through the gateway, into the Chitauri Motherbase.
BOOOOOM!
The explosion wasn't just a cataclysm. It was a molecular nightmare. An atomic collision of unstable energetic atoms whose combustion destabilized Space itself.
Reality cracked in the depths.
And life ceased beyond the Veil. No, it never existed.
With that singular blast, the Chitauri Motherbase was wiped out in one fell swoop.
Of course, Lewis didn't stay around to observe. He descended upon Dr. Erik Selvig, and, with a wave of his hand cleared Loki's scepter's influence of his mind and knocked him out.
Then, grasping hold of the energy field surrounding the device, he began absorbing its energy. His body drank from the infinite pool of the Space Stone, completely disrupting its connection to the portal generator and de-stabilizing the portal above.
As the portal above began shrinking, Lewis' energy reserves became filled even more. He knew if he never awakened his Sentry power set, he would've been overwhelmed if he had only stuck with Captain Comet's energy absorption abilities. While Adam Blake had better energy absorption versatility than Sentry, he lacked the physiological advantage Sentry's god-like physicality gave.
Thankfully, he had both, so it wasn't hard to keep absorbing that energy. His body drank from the Tesseract like a body starved, greedily absorbing wave after wave of its power with no limit in mind.
The experience was euphoric. His energy reserves were being amplified by the raw power of the stone inside.
His golden aura was beginning to frost with blue, raw space energy.
Even when the portal closed and the battle was over, Lewis decided to portal away again——To the lowest levels of the ruins that were what made up much of B.L.A.K.E Industries.
He planned to rebuild his laboratory, but even grander this time——And, with the Tesseract guarded in his hands, he could help further upgrade humanity's defensive technologies.
But even with that plan in mind, Lewis also had others running. One of them were to get a girlfriend.... Or two.
He always did have a thing for powerful redheads, and Marvel had two whom really mattered to continuity. Maybe he should introduce himself.
After all, Jean Grey and Wanda Maximoff would make beautiful wives, wouldn't they?
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Author's Note: The next chapter will likely be a timeskip. Nothing major like years or anything like that, but expect one anyway. Just a heads up.