The Changed World

"This should be fairly amusing" Enchantress mused. She reffered to the fact that a few hundred stock traders were trapped inside the building and explosives were decorating the interior of the NYSE. Perhaps the best part was that the explosives would go off 3 minutes early.

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Iceman glides around, freezing all the explosives in a sheet of ice.

"Guys, get everyone out of here, this whole building's gonna blow!"

Etrigan turns to see this new monster "oh another person who thinks he can fight me well I guess your wrong" Etrigan uses a spell that makes the person it was cast on blind.

The villains left New York. They'd gotten what they wanted: Evidence that the heroes were evil. A hacker had recorded the battle inside the NYSE, except that the three villains were cut out of the tapes. Now the villains had an excuse to at random pick off the heroes. Already the camera's and the internet of the NYSE were being shut off and the reporters would do the rest: take footage of the NYSE blowing up, with their precious heroes as prime suspects. Thor notably being among them.

Bobby smashes the clock.

The clock stops.

Enchantress stood on a nearby building with a big fat red button...

Bobby slides down to the others, the button not noticced by him.

"Well, everything is done here. "

"No it's not! Ice- oh for the love of God, Bobby, freezing them isn't going to do anything!" Shadowcat cried. "That's not how explosives work!"

"I thought of creating at least some form of barrier between us and them."

Meanwhile, a S.H.I.E.L.D. drone, deployed from a nearby helicarrier, hovered over the NYSE, cameras trained on the heroes. Another drone tracked the villains. "Cloudeye one has visual, sir. I count three suspected mutant terrorists, one known criminal and the Hulk."

"Cloudeye two, tracking unknown superhuman criminals."

"...and thirty more seconds" Enchantress said to herself "I can't wait any longer"

Enchantress pressed the button to set off the explosives...

Daredevil heard the press and tries to grapple away...

The Hulk roars in rage as he is blinded, then charges at where he assumes Etrigan to be, hurtling himself over the edge of the building.

"Cloudeye One: the Hulk just jumped off the NYSE. We need someone in there now, where are the Avengers when you need them?"

Daredevil grapples to the building the enchantress happens to be on.

The explosion rippled through the NYSE, creating a loud roar (effects on heroes are up to individual players). To the pedestrians and news reporters, the sky looked like it was on fire.

Enchantress smiled. Who would be able to withstand such a powerful explosion.

Daredevil cringes in agony from the sound of the blast.

Cap thankfully got away in time, Bobby was hurled into a nearby car.

Enchantress loked once more upon the destruction. The NYSE was destroyed. Now it was up to the media (some outlets bribed) to blame the heroes for the explosion.

Bobby groans in pain as he staggers up from the smashed car.

The explosion hurled Nightcrawler and Shadowcat bodily into the air. Nightcrawler grunted, staggering up leaning against the wall, and rubbed at a cut on his forehead. "Ow."

Shadowcat got off better, going intangible as the explosion set off. All that was visible at the moment were her legs from the knee down, stirring from within a wall as she regained her bearings.

The detonation was of course caught on camera - Ghost promptly edited it and leaked it to the media as per Mandarin's instructions.

The shockwave threw Cloudeye One into a tailspin, the drone smashing into the side of a building and falling, narrowly missing Iceman.

"Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, you ok?" Bobby asks, staring at the crashed drone.

Bruce shrunk back into himself just in time to see the fireworks. "Well that sucks for whoever was in there..." he mutters to himself.

"Der Herr Gott..." Nightcrawler crossed himself, looking at the devastation. "How could anyone survive that?"

Shadowcat stood up, still halfway phased into the wall, dusting herself off. "'m fine, Bobby. Shouldn't we look for survivors?"

Bobby dusts himself off and starts to slide away. "I'll look from the air, you 2 check down here, by the way, where's Logan and the others?"

Captain America also helps look for survivors.

The muted roar of jet engines was heard, overlapping with the rising tide of sirens in the background. Suddenly, an immense S.H.I.E.L.D. transport, bearing a circle with a lightning bolt through it in place of the S.H.I.E.L.D. symbols (those were relegated to smaller areas, almost like copyright symbols) swung into view around a nearby building, hovering until it had visual on Enchantress as well as the X-Men and Spidey. Its PA system came online:

"Aᴛᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ sᴜᴘᴇʀʜᴜᴍᴀɴ ᴄᴏᴍʙᴀᴛᴀɴᴛs. Yᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ᴀʀʀᴇsᴛ. Pᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴀɴᴅs ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇᴀᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀssᴜᴍᴇ ᴀ ᴋɴᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ᴘᴏsᴛᴜʀᴇ. Iғ ʏᴏᴜ ʀᴇsɪsᴛ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴇʜᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ Tʜᴜɴᴅᴇʀʙᴏʟᴛs."