20 Chapter 19

(A/N hey guys sorry it took me so long to write this chapter, first things first I had made it longer so it took me a while, second of all I started a new job and it has extremely long hours so I couldn't find the time to write, and third is that several things had been happening in my country that had gotten me to be in no condition to write so I needed to be there for my family, hope you guys can understand that, so without further a due, let's get to the story.)

DC

MARVEL

The Newest marvel

***New York – Baxter building***

Carol Danvers pov

When Carol had gotten to the Baxter building she didn't know what to make of the situation, in front of her were S.H.I.E.L.D and HYDRA operative facing each other with crossbones leading the charge on the enemy side, and amongst the hydra operative were A.I.M scientist as well, carol could only wonder what had HYDRA and A.I.M are wiling to attack the Baxter building not long after the attack on the city by the hulk, even though most places were still recovering and no security had been setup, the Baxter building was an exception.

After the attack on new York, Tony had Reed set the security back up as soon as possible, actually all assets under S.H.I.E.L.D were going through that same thing per Tony's orders, so now all Carol could think about was what is so important that H.Y.D.R.A would risk attacking S.H.I.E.L.D arguably most important asset at this time, she wondered just what exactly Tony had hidden in here.

She was brought out of her musings when a hydra agent had shot at her, however the shots never hit their mark as in seconds she was in front of the agent who shot at her, knocking him out cold with a love tap on his head.

She decided to knock the rest of the hydra and A.I.M agents out but when she came to capture crossbones, she saw he was nowhere to be seen.

"shit." She cussed and went right after him, whatever they were after, she knew she couldn't let them find it.

Tony Stark pov

Tony was trying to put the massive metaphorical and literal fire that just sprouted In the Baxter Building when hydra had started to attack them, he had a snicking suspicion why they were there and made a mental note to check for a security breach in their systems.

Tony was now standing in front of madam viper and her serpent society, rattler had his tale shaking about to expel an energy blast, while king Cobra had his feet changing to a long snake like tale, Tony had his arms stretched out, his repulsors charging up and he said Authoritatively "stand down! Viper I don't know why you're doing this but stand down! Now!' Tony by this point had his repulsors set to stun and trained on their heads.

Madame Viper smirked and said "while this might be entertaining to see, I am under a strict contract not to make your life easy, and to be honest… I'm inclined to agree to that part of it." She said the last part while cracking her whip at Tony who caught it easily with one arm, he gave her an incredulous look under his mask and said "you had to know that won't damage me right?"

Madame viper's grinned at him and said "that was never the purpose." Tony's eyes widen as realization struck him too late, by catching her whip he had left himself whit open, and rattler sure took advantage of this and fired an energy beam out of his tail gun the struck Tony with enough force to make him fly straight through a wall.

Usually, a hit from rattler's… well... rattler wouldn't do such damage to Tony, but since his guard was low it allowed rattler to hit him in such a way that he had no way to defend himself in time.

Tony had made a mental note to rectify that as soon as possible, but in the time being he was still seeing double of everything, and right now he saw two madame viper just walking towards him, Tony had groaned as he tried to stand up from the rubble but he was met with yet another blast that hit him in the armor chest area.

This one however did not came from rattler's tail blaster, when tony turned his head after he got up yet again, moving a chunk of concrete that had fell on him.

He said to FRYDAY "FRYDAY, run diagnostics on all the armor systems for damages." While he did that, the smoke cleared and out stepped A.I.M troopers aiming their guns at him.

Before he could do a thing about it, he was hit yet again by an energy beam but this one had hit him straight in the chest by an A.I.M drone.

He shook his head trying to shake off the headache, then he had gotten a system diagnostic from Friday "armor efficiency is at 79% and dropping." Tony quickly said "initiate self-repair function." He was now pushing out a piece of concrete that fell of top of him when he was hit again.

Then FRIDAY had replied "error, unable to access self-repair function, error error error error error…" Tony was shocked, he didn't understand what could make FRIDAY react that way, but then he looked down and saw it/ it was a large cylindrical device that was sticking out from his ark reactor, Tony's brows rose up as he understood what that meant.

"fuck." He said as an A.I.M drone walked up to him and said "a little gift from M.O.D.O.K MR stark, don't worry, it won't kill you, but it will leave you helpless long enough for us to get what we need without you interfering…. But just to make sure…"

The scientist then proceeded to pull out a device out of his belt and through it at iron man's chest plate, due to his armor's weakened state, iron man could not dodge the item and it quickly attached itself to the armor.

Tony looked at the man who through the item and he saw that in his hand he held a detonator like button, but when he pressed it instead of blowing up, the device had shot an electric current at the suit, effectively electrifying Tony in the process, if it wasn't for whatever life-support systems were left active in his suit, he would have not survive this attack.

When the device stopped electrifying him, Tony had fell to one knee, he was panting heavily, his hand is on top of his ark reactor as if fearing that this experience had damaged it so it would malfunction any second now and he would die.

He wasn't paying attention as the HYDRA and A.I.M agents had gone from both his sides and right through the hole in the wall he had made behind him. The only thing he noticed was the sounds of heels walking next to him, and as he looked up, he had saw madame viper next to him, an energy rifle in her hands as she pointed it to his head and she said "while A.I.M might have a problem eliminating you right now, I on the other hand hold no issues with that sentiment,"

She paused, charging her weapon and asked him "any last words?" just then Tony could hear several walls breaking and a blur was tackling the hydra assassin away from him, he smirked and said "yeah, you should duck." He said as he saw her being knocked out by Carol Danvers.

He then felt himself being lifted back up and saw that it was Johnny Storm, the human torch was helping him stand up while he looked back at Carol who was walking straight back to him.

"Took you long enough." Was all he said to Mrs Marvel, and she just said, "had to deal with hydra and A.I.M while also chasing crossbones, but the bastard got away in time."

She then gave a quick look around and asked him "any idea why they're here Tony?" Tony replied, "yeah I have several." He was about to end it there, but Johnny interrupted him asking "care to share with the rest of the class?"

He was about to reply when another explosion was heard and Carol said, "we can do this after, Tony where'd they go?" Tony was apprehensive about telling Carol, but then again, he could probably explain when she will see in the labs, and they will get back right on track.

"To Reed's labs." She gave a short nod and asked "and how is the suit? Can you fly there?" Tony had shaken his head saying, "they infected it with some special virus M.O.D.O.K had made, all my systems except basic life support are shot," he then said with an embarrassed tone, "Carol… you will have to carry me there."

Tony was sure that Johnny was suffocating a laugh right now, but Carol did not laugh at him, she quickly wrapped one arm under his arm pits and said, "I would suggest you'd hold on tightly." And she rocketed towards the labs.

***Jean Grey pov***

Jean was teleporting in with the help of Kurt to the Baxter building, per her request it was only her, Kurt and kitty that had went on what she planned on being a stealth mission.

"So much for a quiet stealth mission." Kitty voiced their opinions when they saw all the knocked-out bodies of the hydra and A.I.M agents lying on the floor, there were a few S.H.I.E.L.D agents wounded on the floor but most of them were unconscious on the floor.

Jean was mentally cursing their bad luck, it was not this was supposed to go, but she couldn't back down now, Clark was here, and she needed to get to him.

She closed her eyes and started to concentrate on Clark's brain signature to find him, it took her a minute but eventually she did.

She opened her eyes and said, "this way let's go." And she started running towards a hallway that was littered with S.H.I.E.L.D, hydra and A.I.M agents on the floor.

When she ran Kitty was right next to her and she asked her, "I know this might be something for later but what do you think Tony and Reed had done to him? I mean for all we know they could have try to brain wash him or even clone him."

At the silence that followed, Kurt who was right behind kitty, wanted to smack Kitty on her head for her insensitivity to Jean's emotion, but before he had the chance Jean had answered, "I just have a feeling deep inside ok?" she said, fear evident in her voice but she tried to keep a strong face.

They were just turning around the corner when they ran Into a group of A.I.M drones who were piloting mech suits.

Jean and Kitty worked quickly to dismantle the suits, while Kurt had teleported them all out of there way so they wouldn't come back to give them a headache.

it was at the moment Kurt had come back after teleporting the last A.I.M scientist away that they had heard a female voice scream, "Tony what the actual fuck?!"

Jean had immediately recognized the owner of that voice, it was Carol Danvers a.k.a mrs marvel.

Lean had turned towards Kitty and said "shadow Cat…" Kitty immediately had nodded her head as she grabbed both Kurt and Jean and said "say no more." And they all ran to the nearest wall, phasing right through it.

After going through a few walls they had finally had reached there destination, and what Jean had saw was unexpected.

***Carol Danvers pov***

Carol was carrying Tony while the human torch was flying right next to her, they had reached the lab doors and saw the A.I.M agents trying to break inside.

She and Johnny had made quick work out of them, and they were laying passed out on the floor, but then she noticed that they had put some sort of inscription box on top of the lock and before she could do a thing it unlocked the doors to the labs and they had started to open.

She was about to turn around towards Tony and ask him what they had in there that was so important they just had to protect it when she saw it.

He was just floating there, in a tube full of liquid, oxygen mask on his face, around him he had a bunch of some sort of special lights pointing right at him as if he was a special trophy to be showed around, and he was wearing a black full body suit that had covered everything except his neck area and hands, on the center his chest he had a silver diamond shaped shield with the letter S in the middle of it, and on his waist he was wearing a metallic silver belt, of course she would recognize him, how could she not? It was her ex, Clark Kent, or as the media had dubbed him Superman, and near the tube stood DR Reed Richard, typing something at his tablet.

She had turned towards Tony, rage evident in her eyes and had screamed at him, "TONY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!"

This had caused Johnny to step right in between them, while Reed was starting to move as far away from the container as discreetly as possible.

Carol in her mind knew that Tony had done some shady things during the civil war, but this was a new low even for him.

Tony had raised his hands in a placating matter and said "Carol, I can totally explain this, if you'll just let me-"

"How?! How are you going to explain having my ex-boyfriend here on a pedestal like a trophy for all to see?!" she asked with anger very much evident in her voice.

Just that moment though, three new figures got inside the room through the wall, they did not bust it open but rather they had phased through it.

It took Carol a moment to recognize Jean and the other two X-Men with her, nightcrawler and shadow-cat.

Jean had her gaze going from Clark's floating body to the sight they were having, it was at that moment that Johnny had decided to speak, "ah guys? I think we all need to just take a breath and let Tony explain himself before we crucify him yeah?"

Carol never saw Tony nod his head so fast in her life before that moment. Then he started to explain.

"It was after he crashed back on earth with Bruce, while the paramedics had declared him dead, my devices had told me a different story, he was somehow still alive…."

He then proceeded to give them an explanation about how he discovered that Clark's body was absorbing solar radiation and that Tony had put him in that suit to only help speed up the healing process.

The explanation was somewhat satisfactory for Carol, however one glaring problem went in her head, she looked around and asked Tony, "so if you only wanted to help him heal faster, why didn't you had put him in a place where he will get the most exposer to solar rays, and why didn't you tell me? Were you ever going to tell me?"

The Only parts in Tony's suit that still worked were the joints and life support, but the face plate would not open. however, Carol could tell that Tony was wincing under his face plate at that question and was about to ask him again but Jean had saved her the trouble when she said, "he was buying time, he wanted to study him first to see how he could combat his powers, and maybe even find a weakness to him, then wake him up and either send him to prison for being an unregistered or force him to go public under his command."

Now Carol was beyond pissed, she gave Tony such a menacing glare that both he and Johnny had physically backed away.

Tony was saying the whole time, "Carol, now listen to me, he is a war criminal, we offered him a chance to join us on that factory debacle, and he chose his side, hell he had beaten the hulk himself, now I am willing to offer him a chance at redemption again, but I do need insurance that he will co-operate with us when I offer it to him."

Carol could not believe what she had just heard Tony say, she knew he was shady, but she had hopped that after the civil war that would change but seeing tony now, she understood that this had to be stopped.

She started to step towards Clark and was about to grab and rip the tube when she had heard Reed's voice calls out, "no don't!" she gave him a glare but unlike a few minutes ago he didn't back down and stood firm in his place and said, "if you'll do this, MR Kent will die."

Carol stopped frozen in her place, she looked at Reed and asked, "what? Explain yourself now Reed."

The elastic hero just looked at her and said, "right now his body is like a deem star, if you will move him from this location it will only have him die , those lights are acting as life support for him, cut off the supply and he will die shortly."

Carol was stunned for a moment, she gave Jean a look and saw that she was just finishing reading Reed's mind and she nodded towards her, signaling he was telling them the truth.

She had turned her attention back towards reed and asked, "well wouldn't putting him in direct sunlight might help his situation? We can always try and fly him to the sun."

Reed just shook his head and said, "it will take to long, and by that point the will run out of energy, his only hopes of waking up now is either keep him here in our care, or bring the sun right to him."

He said the last part sarcastically, but that had sparked an idea in Carol's head, she just gave him a wide grin and said, "well DR Reed, why didn't you say so sooner?"

She had turned back towards the tube cocking her fist in the process, soon she sends it towards the tube shattering it and having all that fluids spill on the floor.

She quickly grabbed Clark's limp body and had laid him down on the floor, it took her a second charge up her fists with the right energy, she had called out, "clear!" and punched her fists into Clark's chest, his body tensed for a moment but then it became limp once again all the while Carol called out, "come on Clark don't die on me now! Wake up!", again she charged it up and yelled, "clear!" and punched it to his chest and waited for his body to stop tensing and she did for another time and was ready to go again when Clark's eyes had shot open, and he had gasped for air as if he was not breathing, and Carol saw Jean run towards them both now.

***Clark's pov***

Clark was not sure where he was, he could not remember, the only thing that he could remember was his name, he could hear muffled voices, but he did not recognize their owner.

He did not see black around, nor white, all he saw was grey around him.

Then he could hear a new muffled sound, this one sounded like something was breaking, he didn't know what but he didn't really care at the moment, he was at piece, or so he thought, soon memories began flooding his head, and he remembered everything.

And yet there was still something that felt like a long-forgotten dream in his memories. Then he the grey space around him was illuminated by a bright yellow light the Clark had to shield his eyes from, it lasted a few minutes but then it started to die down, then the space was lit up again by the same bright light only brighter, before dying down again only the space had brighter light lingering a bit longer, then when the third time the bright light had lit illuminated the space his vision had changed and he found himself at a ceiling of some sorts with different machinery around him, it took him a moment to recognize this place, it was Reed Richards' labs at the Baxter building.

The first person he noticed to be on his left, was Carol Danvers, his Ex-girlfriend, and when he turned his head to his right and saw the beautiful face of his current girlfriend, Jean Grey.

He didn't realize he was panting until he noticed that his breath had begun to stabilize.

He had looked at both superheroines and said with enough humor as he could muster at that moment, "if this is a dream nobody wake me up."

Jean just sighed and started to cry in happiness while she gave Clark a big hug and berried her face in his chest, while Carol was giving him the biggest smile in the world at that moment.

The moment was interrupted when someone had cleared their throat, and Clark had turned his head and saw that it was Iron Man out of nowhere came several of S.H.I.E.L.D agents and had pointed their weapons at him, Clark could tell they were not in the best of shapes and wondered why was that the case.

Suddenly he could feel Carol grabs him under his pits and start to lift him up, when he had stood on his feet, he noticed that he was wearing a black full body suit that in the center had his house Siegel imprinted on it in silver, all in all, minus the silver boots, it reminded him of the suit he saw the other Superman wears before he had died in his previous life.

He stood Infront of Tony, both Carol and Jean had supported him since it too him a minute to be able to stand on his own again, tony had stood there and said, "really hate to interrupt the happy reunion, but I'm afraid that you will have to come with us, MR Kent."

Clark eyebrows had shot up at hearing that, but then he had looked at Carol who just had silently mouthed the words "later." Before looking at Iron man and asking, "and what if I don't want to?"

At that several weapons could be heard charging up and Tony had said, "I'm afraid you don't really have a choice in the matter, you are a war criminal who had attacked other heroes who were working on behalf of the U.S government and shield."

Clark had heard Iron Man pause for a moment before saying, "but I am willing to give you a chance, come with us, register as a legitimate superhero instead of being a vigilante and all of your crimes will be forgotten."

Clark had shared a look with both Jean and Carol and then turned towards Tony while he let the ladies let him go and he had stood on his own two feet, "you have mistaken my helping you when your mess with the hulk had come back to bite you in the ass, stark, but it doesn't change my position on the registration act," as he was speaking he could feel himself getting a little stronger by the minute, using his enhanced senses he had noticed that Jean, using her telekinesis had turned one of the lamps that were laying around towards him, ~they most be solar lamps.~ he understood as he felt his power returns.

"And don't think I haven't forgotten what you had done with Thor's D.N.A Tony, he was your trusted friend and you had violated his trust that way, what guarantee do I have that you won't try to do the same thing with my D.N.A? or that you haven't already?"

Clark didn't need to use his x-ray vision to tell that Tony was wincing at his words, but he still held strong and said, "my word, MR Kent, you have my word, now please come with us quietly."

Clark had looked around and saw the devices and especially, the little phials of blood, a quick scan had confirmed that this was In fact, his blood.

He had turned towards tony and said, "well then, you wouldn't mind if I do this, would you?" he then turned his head towards the phials and had shot a ray of heat vision out of his eyes, destroying any trace of his blood, and also burning the notes that were next to it.

He would have to take care of the digital copy later, since Tony and reed obviously had backed it up.

Tony was livid and had screamed at Clark to stop, but Clark was ignoring his calls.

Instead, he had crouched down, his leg muscles were tensing, and he looked up to the ceiling, he heard Tony scream to his agents," SHOOT HIM DOWN MOW! open fire on him!" but Clark just gave the biggest jump in his life and shot right through it and out of the Baxter building.

He was attempting to stabilize himself in the air, but he failed to do so, he had crashed into a building and stopped after digging up a trench in the asphalt on the street below.

He then crouched again and jumped higher then before, this time he managed to keep himself longer in the air, both his arms stretched forward, he had let out a small laugh but then he noticed that he was falling once again.

"No! No!" he had screamed as he was making his way to ground fast yet again, and then he had hit the asphalt super-fast.

He heard the crash and was sure every person in the try state area had heard it as well, Clark was now crawling his way out of the crater he had made only to see he was now in times square.

He saw people pulling out camera phones and started to take pictures of him, all the while some of them began to say, "it's the Superman, it's the Superman, isn't he dead? is he wearing black now? It's the Superman." And so on and so forth.

Clark had come to the conclusion that he did not absorb enough solar energy to help him fly, and the stunt he had pulled at the Baxter's building had definitely did not help his condition.

Suddenly he could feel little rays of sun light touching his skin, he had closed his eyes in delight, Clark could feel his every cell drinking the energy like it was on the brink of dying of thirst, then he noticed something, the suit he was wearing, it increased the amount of solar radiation he was absorbing, on closer inspection he recognized the material as something that one of his cow-workers had developed to help with harnessing solar energy.

His thoughts were interrupted when the sounds of helicopters and S.U.V's engines could be heard loudly, soon enough the whole place was full of agents, all armored and even some of the cape killers unites were deployed to the ground and marching towards him.

And on top of all that he heard all to familiar sound of Iron Man's jets as he flew, and then he made a ling right Infront of Clark, Clark had noticed that he had changed his suit to something different, it was now black and gold, instead of it's usual red and gold.

Iron man had strode towards Clark and said, "it's over Superman, just come with us and everything would be alright, I promise you won't face any charges for what happened in the civil war while you were still operating under the name Cobalt, come on what do you say?"

Clark had To give it to Tony, he sure was tenacious, but he also noticed that unlike before, he refrained from using his secret identity in public, he figured it was in an attempt to gain his favor, Clark was not impressed.

"sorry Tony, no can do, you see I can't just look over at all the things that you have done, and even then the mess with the hulk that you had brought down on us, even if the bomb was not your fault, you had send the hulk to that world, and the bloods of all the dead are forever on your hands, so to summarize, no Tony I won't come with you peacefully."

At hearing that, all the unites over there had charged up their weapons and were ready to take on Clark.

He was reading himself, for the attack, not leaving his spot, absorbing as much yellow solar radiation as he possibly can, but then he heard a -BAMF- and next to him appeared Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Jean and Carol, all of them were standing right next to him and carol had cracked her knuckles saying, "I so want you to try taking on all of us right now Tony."

At hearing her words, some of the agents had gave looks to Tony, as if asking him what he will do now, but the only thing Clark had noticed was the looks of shear horror on the civilians faces, he guessed that the mere thought of having another superhero civil war was so scary it had brought on the surface the memories of what had happen last time.

Clark had raised his voice and said, "Tony let's talk just you and me, I don't wish to have any of these innocent civilians hurt in the crossfire."

Tony's face plate had risen, and his brow was also up but he walked towards him and stopped halfway between them, Clark had walked up to him but had stopped right where the sun's rays didn't touch, and it was shadowy.

Had lowered his voice enough so only Tony could pick up what he was saying, "Tony, I don't want to do this more then you do, but I can't in good conscious go and register, not for my sake but for the sake of those I love."

Tony just gave him a look and said, "you know that you really don't have to go public right? You just have to register-"

Clark had raised his hand before and said, "if you have heard any of what I had told Carol from when we started to date, there is a good reason why I'm firmly against that idea, but listen we can stand here and talk and nothing good comes out of this, or we can fight, we beat you and nothing good comes out of these."

Tony's face grimaced and he asked, "well what would you have us do?"

"I have a third option in mind, if you're willing to hear it out that is?"

"go on let's hear it."

"you me and the president meet, I only tell him who I am and my backstory, you will also be there to get all the info dump, none of you shall record or even right anything down, it will only be known orally, I will not right my secret identity so it won't lead up to any of my loved ones, if you want you can tell people that I am registered and right my name as superman or Kal EL, the reason for that will be revealed when we meet the commander in chief, now can you leave with those terms?"

He said the last part while offering Tony his hand for him to shake, it took him a minute, but he groaned and took Superman's hand and shook it.

Just then Clark had felt that he had absorbed enough solar energy for a stable flight, so with he had started to float in the air and go up and backwards while he was stile facing Iron man and he said, "oh and Tony? Don't bother finding out wear I hang my suit, Cause you won't."

And with that he had faced Jean and Told her telepathically ~I will meet you back at the x mansion ok? I have something to take care of first.~

~ok, but don't take long Clark.~

~I won't, see you soon.~

And with that he had shifted his gaze upwards and shot up to the air, braking the speed of sound in the process.

He had kept on climbing up an up and up, until eventually he had reached the upper atmosphere and just stayed there, he knew it didn't made up for a life time of absorbing it but it still felt good to just be there, while his skin was absorbing every ounce of sun ray it could.

It was several hours later that he finally had made his way back to the X- mansion he figured it would be the only safe place for him for the time being.

While he floated down to the grass, he saw kitty, Kurt, Carol and Jean all of them standing there, but what had caught his eye was the couple making their way towards him, and he recognized his parents immediately.

His mom had reached him when his feet had touched the ground, she had reached her hand as if not sure what to do and asked, "Clark?"

He smiled at her and said "it's me mom."

The woman started subbing and gave her son a hug, his father had joined him as well and he just said, "it's ok, everything is going to be ok from now on."

He then took a deep breath and said, "I'm home."

End, next up siege.

So this was the longest chapter I had ever written for a fanfic but I had made it especially for you guys.

Like I said, I had started a new job so updates will be slower, maybe at least once a month, but no promises.

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