The Retired

"I see...I'll have a few bases mobilize in the area, unfortunately we couldn't deploy a few ships as they are currently preoccupied with patrolling the galaxy and Skadi has strongly advise against sending the home fleet away but I'll try to free up a few ships there as soon as possible." said Alexander.

On the screen, Diana's face can be seen frowning, hearing that only a few men can be deployed in defense of Earth would do that but she also understand that Alex couldn't just pull away any personnels from Asgard, while its population is booming right now, it still is significantly lower compared to a small nation's population.

Alexander smiled at her and said. "Don't worry love, while I couldn't deploy any ship for Earth immediately, I can still field considerable amounts of Warframes in the upcoming fight, I'll also be bringing a few of my best men into battle so don't worry about it and just concentrate on the invasion."

Diana's worry alleviate a bit when she heard this and gave him a sincere smile before saying her goodbyes.

Alexander left with his own thoughts, couldn't help but think about the failure of detection from his many satellites, while extreme radiation did have an effect on them, the presence of an exotic energy detected on the ship was the more likely cause of the failure.

His worries deepened when he read the files send by the R&D society.

'Mana' he muttered. 'corrupted mana at that...so this isn't just an Alien invasion, somehow I just knew demons are involve in this one..Aliens was already bad enough adding Demons into the mix? now that is a disaster.' he added.

"Skadi dear, would you mind alerting the Sunnydale squad on their next mission..also prepare my suit when your at it. Thank you." Alexander said out loud.

"Will do Alex" replied the disembodied voice of Skadi.

'Now, I better get ready myself' he thought before standing up from his seat.

Superman was annoyed-no he was pissed. While naturally a mild mannered man and all around good guy, he's current situation somehow change that.

'So far that's eight, twelve more to go' he thought before being blasted away by a plasma bolt in his back.

He couldn't help but hiss at the considerable pain he was feeling but thankfully he's healing factor rapidly healed and ease him of the pain.

Now, usually attack such as this shouldn't have a noticeable effect on him, after all he had in countless occasion tank multiple plasma bolts and even outright recieve a plasma cutter to the eye with little to no effect but somehow this ship's plasma is different, it burned him and he had no idea how, it was only his relatively small size that kept him from being drowned out in volley fires.

The second annoying thing though was the fact that they were so intent on reaching Earth and would always ignored him even with all the damage he had done, also there's just something wrong with this ship looking like a Tyranid Bioship from Warhammer.

While he could catch up to them with ease, the distance of the sun although unfiltered mix with the multiple burns that tax his healing factor is quickly draining his solar reserve.

He zip away trying to catch up to the rest of the fleet but he was still far out so, he let out two pure superheated beams from his eyes unto the lead ship creating significant damage to it before doing the same to the rest distracting them for the moment. He could see now that they were in orbit of mars and in a few minutes they would reach Earth and there were still 10 of them.

'Too many' he thought.

He caught up with the fleet and punch a ship off the formation before letting out an eye beam pushing it to mars orbit. He had manage to turn just in time before another ship ram into him towards the red soil followed by point blank plasma fire then razor sharp whip from the previous downed ship, started attacking him from back.

He turned to the ship ramming him down and use his super strength to flip the ship like it was made of tin foil and hurled it at the other downed ship creating tremendous amount of explosion.

'That's eight'

Just when he was about to fly up he notice that three ships has position themselves in orbit and was just about ready to fire their burning hot plasma. His eyes widened as he saw the shimmer in its underbelly before being engulf by multiple plasma bombardment.

Pain rack his body and he felt like being burned alive. He could see his skin burning away, his healing factor struggling to keep up.

'M-move...He had to move' he thought over his pain addled mind.

Using his diminishing Solar energy he propelled himself away from the line of fire, his clothes were damage and his skin suffered multiple burns and while it was healing, it wasn't healing fast enough.

He hiss as the wind made his wounds flare up. 'Sun...I need the sun' he thought once more as he flew up trying to escape the martian atmosphere, his tired he could tell but he was almost out, just a few more paces.

Straight out of nowhere, another ship appeared and rammed him straight back into the Martian planet.

"Argh!" he snarled once more, more animalistic this time around, as an unbridled anger overcame him drowning out his pain and with considerable act of will, he used his remaining strength to halt the ship and push it back towards space. It started slow as the ships thruster contested him, while multiple teeth clamp unto him but slowly but surely with his anger soaring he push back the kilometer ship, gaining momentum by the second.

'Too...late!' he thought with a bit of murderous glee.

A little more push and the ships thrusters failed, with nothing to counteract his superhuman strength, he gained significant speed and at its peak, he let go, watching as the ship slammed into the other two, he then started blasting them all with eyebeams for good measure before not long, the three ships couldn't take it anymore and was incinerated into ash.

He nodded with satisfaction before he notice that the other five was now in Earth's orbit. He turned to look at his skin as he could feel the unfiltered Solar energy energize him and saw that it was already healing.

"Superman time for phase 2, recover for a minute then ȧssist Green Lanter" he heard his comms. (AN: it's kryptonian tech, as far as I know it's BS)

"Alright, just give me a few seconds to catch my breathe." he replied rather weakly.

After awhile he flew towards Earth in great speed, he could already see Green Lantern intercepting the remaining ship, so he increase his speed. He just hope no more surprises comes along the way because he had have enough of it for the day.

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While Green Lantern wasn't as powerful as Superman to destory this ships, he was still poweful enough to atleast crash them towards the Sahara.

His ring had displayed the ensuing battle on Mars and he couldn't help but be thankful that the kryptonian man wasn't their enemy. He now understand why the Guardians were reluctant to engage the Kryptonians in battle.

"Starship killer...They really earned that title." he couldn't help but mutter. He saw the approach of the remaining ships and using his will, he chained and redirected them by creating massive thrusters-like constructs, the ships manage to resist for awhile but Green Lantern added a few more and finally move the ship in orbit of Sahara.

He could feel that he was straining his mind but he couldn't fail here. He tried dragging them down towards the planet but he found resistance once more.

'they probably had reverse their thrusters...I won't be able to do this on my own.' he thought straining his mind.

Nonetheless he tried but it was slow, he could already tell that his constructs were failing.

"No good...they'll be able to escape in this case." he couldn't help but said. "Ring, how many charge left." he ask in desperation.

"30% percent, I advise recharging immediately or else your environmental shields would fail." replied the ring.

"Batman, I couldn't do this alone..I'm..I'm almost out of charge." he said through the comms.

"Understood Green Lantern, just hold on for a moment" he heard Batman calmly replied.

"I don't I have a moment!" he shouted back.

Suddenly one of the chains crack. "Sh*t Batman! I'm losing my construct!" he shouted once more. Instead of Batman though, it was Wonder Woman who answered him back.

"Hold on Green Lantern!" Wonder Woman said.

He couldn't help but reply in annoyance. "To do what exactly!?"

"This" her short reply before suddenly a golden lasso shot up from Earth and wrap around the ships.

"What in the hell!?"

"Now pull Green Lantern!" he heard WW. Stowing away his astonishment for later he pulled down hard on the ship.

Gravity took hold immediately and it became easier to pull the ships down. He could see that the ships thrusters were trying hard to counteract this.

"Object travelling in sublight speed detected...processing...Kryptonian" His ring called out and he cried out in surprise when he saw Superman slammed into the mesh of Ships, pushing it down even more.

And when they were almost there he let his construct fizzled out with WW doing the same with her lasso and let Superman slammed the ships down in the dessert, cratering the sandy ground.

"Good work, missiles are now inbound evacuate the area." He heard Batman once more. he flew away and saw Superman doing the same carrying Wonder Woman by her lasso.

US bomber planes from a nearby fleet flew past them and let loose four payloads each on the ships creating huge explosion in the process. "Hoorah" He couldn't help but cheer.

He stared in horror as he realize what specie of Alien it was. "Batman! That's a xenomorph! we must destroy them at once before they can get close to civilians or they might multiply unstoppably!" he shouted through his comms.

"Understood, The army is now moving to cordoned the area. Heads up Cruise missiles inbound."

A huge explosion engulf the ship once more and he saw that the ship crack due to tremendous damage but..there were still considerable amount of xenomorph that survive and some of them, the more humanoid one has started chanting in a ring ring object.

Artillery started pounding the Aliens and he could see that it has an amazing effect on them but he notice that they were still very numerous. He could see tanks rolling in from nearby army bases but he knew that won't be enough, the xenomorph has claws that could easily rip steels and has the speed to match it.

He could see that Superman was also thinking the same seeing as he was turning back to face the xenomorphs.. He wanted to go but he needed to recharge first.