Senator Armstrong vs Red Hulk is a Completed What-If? Death Battle written by BaselordMasterO9
Intro[]
Boomstick: America...Land of the Brave and the Free...founded by those who took matters into their own hands....
Wiz: And relied on their own will and strength rather then those govermential forces who stood in power and asserted their authority over the individuals and their property...
Boomstick: Only to later down the lane become the very thing they escaped from in order to secure their homeland, ahh yes... america... fighting fire with fire since the 18th century!
Boomstick randomly combusts cuz funny
Wiz: today we have here two hard-headed military men who will to set the world and themselves on fire as means of conserving their nation's pride and honor, going to the lengths of irrationally ignoring laws and morals to achieve their own ends
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Senator Armstrong RUNS for this DEATH BATTLE![]
Boomstick: Born and raised in Texas, a college football athlete had sacrificed his chance at a pro career and joined The Navy out of the selfless desire of allowing individuals to fulfill their dreams at peace and safety
Wiz: Minus the selfless part, that same athlete would move to Colorado and begin his run for state senate election.
Boomstick: promising to let the financially hard working men improve the security of the state, he would've eventually proven to be successful, having been elected as Senator.
Wiz: Passing the legalization of private forces and using tax money to own the largest supplier of cybernetics and forming Desperado, the senator became an unstoppable force.
Boomstick: ENTER. SENATOR ARMSTRONG.
Wiz: Steven Armstrong has gained influence and thereby control over of the masses, becoming a potential candidate for the president election of 2020
Boomstick: But that wasn't enough, having access to the clusterfuck ouroboros that is Metal Gear event lore, Armstrong didn't take a liking to the whole Patriots pulling the strings thingy
Wiz: Seeing as how these events would shapen up America to what he knows it as today, Armstrong initiated a war in the middle east in hopes of fear mongering the messes into winning the election
Boomstick: And how did he do that you may ask? Why with his...
cut to clip of armstrong ripping off his shirt
Armstrong: N---(pause)
Boomstick: kickass advanced technology and an army of cyborg mercenaries at hand! Who knew? diplomacy IS beneficial!
Wiz: since we are focusing on these two specifically and not their armies and allies, Armstrong won't need the Winds of Destruction and his Metal Gear Excelsus, because he already has
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Boomstick (Dubbed Over): NANOMACHINESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
Wiz looks unamused at Boomstick, as this sound plagues the area
Boomstick: Yeah! ...you know we had to...
Wiz: That is correct Boomstick. It just had to be This Way....
Boomstick: With his entire body being composed of nanomachines, not only does he gain superhuman powers and the striking power of 8.277 gigatons, but his physical structure becomes dense and hard enough to resist the effects of High-Frequency Blades!
Wiz: For reference, a High-Frequency Blade vibrates at intensity so high it can disrupt atoms and shrink their electron clouds, causing Quantum Decoherences on the Planck level.
Boomstick: Wow! He must be physically invulnerable! Especially when you take into consideration the blade negates any masses durability, that must mean Armstrong is immune to all physical attacks!
Wiz: That is unless if you are capable of removing his incoherent quantum density while maintaining strength on his same level, which really does seem to be like something that would require the capacity of defying the very laws of modern physics, even the doktor agrees!
Boomstick: You think thats bad? While being impenetrable to sheer force, his Nanomachines can harden to physical trauma to match the force of that same attack, gee his powers fit with how cheap he is!
Wiz: Not only that Senator Armstrong can also absorb energy from nearby machinery to heal and gain stamina, generate heat, explosions, shockwaves and fissures with brute force, control magnetism to levitate, attract nearby metal objects and a healing factor comparable to one that has been implied that anything that isn't complete physical vaporization won't be enough to surpass
Boomstick: Holy crap can anything stop this guy?! Screw Sundowner that is some who can say I'M FUCKING INVINCIBLE!
Wiz slaps Boomstick on the head and knocks him out cold
Wiz: Well Armstrong isn't without his own shortcomings, it did take Raiden multiple swings of the murasama to rip his heart out and his nanomachines do require immense amounts of energy as evident by him draining machines in his boss fights
Boomstick: And because of his righteous sportsmanship he will try to recruit anyone he deems worthy that challenges him, Man no wonder so many people say he was right! Maybe these anonymous forums were right...
Wiz: Righteous? Boomstick you do realize he corrupted Denver's police force and put the brains of kidnapped orphans in cyborg soldiers
Boomstick: Eh, he was pulling them out of poverty anyways, making the mother of all omelettes here wiz, can't fret over every egg.
Wiz: *sighing* Yes while Armstrong did a lot of cruel things it was for a good cause, he was willing to compromise ethics to liberate his nation from societal and governmental codependence
Boomstick: Yeah but then Raiden was like "uhhh That's immoral" and killed him. Screw you Raiden this is why we sold Metal Gear's win streak to Tencen---OUCH!
Wiz hits Boomstick with a frying pan
Boomstick: errr i mean...Yeah! That Armstrong guy sure is Evil! If only he defined "The Weak" he wanted to purge as materialistic and trivial despite dabbling in the very same trivial and materialistic war economy the weak focus on, maybe th---
Wiz (swiftly reciting): despite using that as means of controlling the populace through ideas he doesn't actually believe, contradicting his individualist ideology as proven by him telling raiden what he should fight for
Boomstick: Ermm...LET ME FINISH, Maybe then America could have seen a president who would start new found revolution that would make the Founding Fathers proud and allow every men to fulfill his own American Dream... well that and minus the child trafficking, for good publicity y'know.
Boomstick smirks and winks to the camera
General Ross THUNDERBOLTS into DEATH BATTLE![]
Wiz: Hailing from New Hampshire and born to a family with rich military history, Thaddeus E. Ross had immersed himself in the study of military history, playing war and writing his father stories of valor.
Boomstick: Witnessing the death of his friend's dad, he would become a stunt pilot, eventually granting him his place in the Army Air Corps where he got the most kickass nickname ever, Thunderbolt...
Wiz: Soon he would go up the ranks, fighting War World 2, The Korean War and protecting the state along side The CIA, FBI, Howard Stark and become a General assigned by the shadow organization "Control" to recruit the bi-polar gamma expert Bruce Banner who had almost blew his own high school
Boomstick: Ross hated Banner, seeing him as a wimp because he kept a childhood plushie in his belongings and made a bomb that didn't kill people, now a bomb should be a bomb but com'n! Give him a break!
Wiz: As his daughter started eyeing Banner, he pressured him into testing the gamma bomb and leading to the incident, creating his new obsession and biggest enemy; The Hulk.
Boomstick: Hulk to Ross was as Moby Dick was to Ahab, for decades Ross was determined to put that Banner sissy down, going as far as to team up with villains such as Abomination, MODOK and The Leader.
Wiz: This may seem trivial but doing so enabled the collateral damage he sought to prevent, which has put him in many positions where he was the cause behind Hulk's rampages
Boomstick: And not only one of those were a soviet spy, but some of these were the same villains that turned his daughter into a gamma mutated harpie! i guess you could say Hulk smashed her in both ways!
Wiz: Shouldn't you still be on fire?
Boomstick: All week baby! Just a little taste of the Boomstick!
Wiz: Ermm...so...with his ever growing failed attempts at capturing Hulk, Ross had again formed an alliance with MODOK and Leader that led to his daughter getting killed by The Abomination
Boomstick: Yeah but Ross then teamed up with them YET AGAIN to resurrect his daughter and so when Hulk returned from space they siphoned the gamma energy from him into Ross, granting him the ability to fight fire with fire as the notorious one and only; Red Hulk.
Wiz: Unlike Hulk, Ross can transform at will while still maintaining his conscious clear, allowing him to use his Stark Industries designed Handgun that was used to kill beings such as Abomination and Wendigo
Boomstick: And he's got more firepower then that, as he gets angrier like our jolly green giant, he emits gamma radiation so intense that anything he comes to contact with burns
Wiz: To further back this up when emitting too much energy, he can reach heat temperatures that are high enough to turn sand into glass on the cellular level, and the melting point of sand is roughly around 3080 fahrenheit!
Boomstick: best part is that whenever he overheats he can always just let out a powerful explosion that leaves him unscathed, kind of like a fart except it comes from your whole body!
Wiz: Ew....Anyways while Ross can expell energy from his body, he also can also absorb it to store it within him to further amplify his energy and render ranged energy attacks as ineffective. Boomstick: And to top that off not only is he literally a bomb but he also beat this guy called A-Bomb so badly he caused a 10.0 earthquake on the richter scale!
Boomstick: That would require 294.71916826 teratons, and that's not even getting into THE HERALD SCALING!
Boomstick: Yep, he went toe-to-toe with the Hulk and a Cyttorak empowered Colossus, humiliated Thor and the Sentry, jumped into space from earth at mach 2907.22, survived the pull of a black hole created by the Watcher and drained Thor from his Odinforce along with the Silver Surfer's power cosmic!
Wiz: That would also be the same Silver Surfer who inherited the power to generate galaxy sized black holes, manipulate matter on a sub-atomic level and surf through exploding galaxies like unphased!
Boomstick: Man that really makes you question two things; A. Why is Silver Surfer such a jobber? and B. What were these writers on about!?
Wiz: Thats not even getting as metal to that one time he bonded with the Venom symbiote and became Ghost Rider.
Boomstick: HOLY CRAPPING CRAP!!! THAT'S TOTALLY FUCKING TUBULAR!!!
Boomstick then swiftly pulls out a guitar from his ass and plays a riff on it because com'n, it's Boomstick.
Wiz (in confusion): What???
Boomstick: That's an actual line he said in the comics, ahhh Loeb...your writing always amuses me...
Wiz: Questionable writing aside... The Red Hulk has shown to be hurt by sharp piercings objects on multiple occasions such as Elektra's sai and Punisher's knife and while his overheating can have its benefits, it also makes him a lot like Hulk where he becomes so mad that he can't even think properly until he lets it all out
Boomstick: On top of being old and a hulk, his stamina is linked to his rage, meaning he could heavily weaken himself after overheating; kind of like a firey post-nut clarity.
Wiz: He is also vulnerable to energy absorption powers similar to his own, matter of fact that's how it was revealed by the gamma infused Betty Ross, better known as Red She-Hulk that he was actually General Ross to begin with
Boomstick: Turns out during Ross' pact with a shadow organization called "The Intelligencia", he was brainwashed as Red Hulk and had his resurrected daughter be turned into the Red She-Hulk without him knowing
Wiz: After a touching father and daughter moment, this discovery would lead to him absorbing The Leader's gamma radiation, leaving his former ally powerless as he begs to be finished off, but now with his brand new power, the rage-filled Red Hulk would seek to go on a crusade to mold the world into how he sees it fit.
Boomstick: That is of course until he got his ass beaten by Hulk. Ross would then see how much of a hypocrite he was and instead of being an energy absorbing junky he would seek redemption as a member of the Avengers, fighting alongside them against the Serpent, X-Men and eventually the Phoenix Five
Wiz: He would also go as far as to create his own suicide squad esque team called the Thunderbolts, be hunted and captured by his now-general friend watching him take the same path as he once did, fought against an asgardian spirit possessing Ben Grim as the only Avenger remaining and has went to literal hell simply because Captain America told him to.
Boomstick: Heheh yup, and this doesn't even cover the time he befriended his robot assistant named Annie who he treated fondly as a human and developed a whole daughter-father relationship with after rescuing her from a robotic clone of MODOK and forcing The Watchers to exploit loopholes in their laws just to bend reality and keep her safe from the World-Destroying Omegex, even if it costs his life as well! Man did he forget Betty is still alive?
Wiz: if there is one thing through all of that is clear, its that with General Ross in charge; The United States is the last thing you'd want to pick up a fight with, for he is willing to compromise whatever it takes to persevere the state's prosperity, the security of its innocents and the disciplinces it was built on.
Intermission[]
Wiz: All right, the combatants are set, we've done a quick run through all possible search and data analysis, let's end the debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a DEATH BATTLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Death Battle[]
An EXCELSUS GEAR arrives at a military base located around a desert, from there comes out a buff man in a suit vocally introducing himself as "Steven Armstrong, Colorado's elected Senator"
Armstrong: Alright soldiers lets get these nukes dropping like the refugees on the floor, we've got some sand[BLEEP]s to [CONTINUOUS BLEEP]!
he loudly exclaims before lighting up his cuban cigar and jumping down from the building sized mech, causing a tiny shockwave and filling the area with a loud THUD!!! sound
Ross: What's all this ruckus about!? Congress aren't allowed to interfere with this military's property!
From the hanger's base, a grumpy military men with a cuban cigar at hand and a well trimmed walrus mustache steps out
Armstrong: We're borrowing some of your forces, State official's business, we've got a war to start to General erm....
Armstrong looks at General Ross' name tag in confusion, quite unfamiliar
Armstrong: Ross...
Ross: "that's Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross for you! and now what do you think your doing over here, you can't just start wars out here like that!"
Armstrong smugly cackles to himself
Armstrong: "Hohoho...he doesn't seem to know...Office put Desperado Enterprises in charge of this dump now."
taking a huff from his cuban cigar, Armstrong handed Ross a legal document asserting his """(((legal)))""" dominance
Ross: What kind of corrupt politician shit do i have to deal with now!? let me see!
Ross is seething with rage after reading the paper and slightly turns red, incinerating his cuban cigar he held inbetween his fingers
Armstrong: Pretty ain't it? Now get the boys to battle stations General, and don't hestiate to hold back fire, gotta show these [BLEEP]s in the media the new America they are dealing with.
Ross: You'd first have to get through me Senator. I am not willing to meddle with federal law again.
Ross claims as he approaches Armstrong and stares him down, Armstrong nonchalantly smirks and takes another huff and puff, remarking on his suspicion in modern america's government
Armstrong: A patriot i see, appreciate the enthusiasm, but you've been making America a mess for a long time now.
Armstrong shamelessly puffs his remaining lung smoke into Ross' face, turns around and ignores the General's presence
Armstrong: It's time the people get their shit together General, what im doing will build a better character for this nation
Ross: But the Ode! the Ecconomy! the State! You'd risk the lives of millions of innocents here!
Armstrong: Doesn't matter Thaddy-O, its all for the greater good, something has to burn for us to grill in peace, and no top secret organisation is gonna stop me!
Ross fully turns into the Red Hulk and burns the paper in his hands as Armstrong's back faces him
Red Hulk: THE ONLY THING YOU'LL BE GRILLING IN PEACE IS LUNCH IN FEDERAL PRISON YOU AMORAL FUCK!
Couldn't find any sprites so i thought about trying to get a lil quirky here, worst case scenario is that it unironically sucks
FIGHT![]
Ross Grips onto Armstrong's shoulder, noticing in disbelief the Senator grabs Ross' index and ring fingers to judo throw the general over his shoulder, leaving a sonic boom in his trail leading right into the hanger, which is obliterated to pieces
Ross gets up from the ruins and arms himself with rocket launcher
Ross: So it has to be this wa---
Armstrong: NAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
Ross' reference is quickly interrupted as seen from his perspective by Armstrong who sprint charges head-on towards him, Ross fires the rocket as Armstrong closes the gap and crashes into Ross' weapon upon impact with his massive forehead
BOOM!
This results in both of them being encased in a large firey explosion so powerful it sends the hanger's debris flying away, yet leaves them both unphased as a shirtless Armstrong runs out from the explosion with the Red Hulk grappled by the abdomen, Ross tries to break free from his increasingly constructing grip by repeatedly hammer punching his back and shoulders, noticing his exposed skin turning black and hardening
Ross: NOT A SINGLE SCRATCH...WHAT ARE YOU?!
Armstrong: A good use of tax budgeting, can't go wrong with fine nanomachinery.
Armstrong said before smashing through multiple tanks with the Red Hulk in his grip, causing a trail of explosions upon impact, that Red Hulk uses to amplify himself along with his ever growing rage
Ross: ALRIGHT THAT'S ENOUGH!
Armstrong: Yeah, HERE'S THE TOUCHDOWN!
Armstrong said as he released Red Hulk from his grip into the air, as he was about to deliver an increased velocity tackle, Ross swung his arms backwards and thunderclapped his giant hand palms against Armstrong's head, releasing a shockwave so powerful its sends vibrations through Armstrong's body that leave him stunned, making him grin in anger as his skin turns black and eyes glow red.
Ross takes initiative and wraps his massive hand around his head, slam dunking him into the ground with such great force it propels him upwards as the concrete shatters, enabling Ross to grab him by the leg with his intensely heated contact and starts ragdolling him in a very jotunheimian fashion that leaves scorching cracks on the pavement, Ross then whirls him in his gamma tornado and eventually tosses him upwards, as he enters a stand still charge pose where his fist starts glowing yellow, we cut to to the airborne senator's slow-mo close-up face reaction
Armstrong (Vibrating): Y-Y-Y-YOU-YOU M-M-MOTHER-F-F-F-FU---
Ross: HEED THE CAPTAIN!
Armstrong's foul language is interrupted as Ross' uber-charged punch impacts the falling senator, punching him so hard it creates an explosion that sends Armstrong flying at high velocity through his metal gear EXCELSUS' cockpit and hind leg, causing it to explode and thus collapse from lack of balance, he leaps forward to ensure his opponents defeat
Armstrong (Vibrating): F-F-Fine-Fine then...Mano el M-M-Mano...YOU CAN'T BEAT ME THAD!
Stomping the ground and beginning to draw green energy waves from his metal gear, Armstrong looks upwards and sees Ross bursting from the ashes downwards towards him with a double axe handle punch from above, ending Armstrong's vibrational paralysis and knocking him head-on to the ground
Armstrong: I don't need no fancy toys from some limp dick government glowies to throw hands!
Armstrong exclaimed as he got up with small electromagnetic jolts surrounding him, Red Hulk profilically looks down on Armstrong as he prolifically approaches the rising texan
Ross: Hmph, manchild babble coming from you and your giant robot over he---
Armstrong uppercuts Ross in the jaw before he finishes his sentence, deflecting him vertically above the frame into the sky.
Armstrong: Don't act like you know any better Saucy Ross!
Irritated by the cheap blow, Ross' veins swelled up as flame-like aura begun flaring around his aerodynamically ascendent body, but THEN... looking downwards...he saw something you wouldn't see your everyday steroidal politician could perform...
As Armstrong was surrounded by electricity entering his body, he set his foot on the ground and leaped towards the air, blasting at supersonic speeds towards the airborne Red giant
Armstrong: Look Gramps, I'm Superman!
Armstrong flew towards him with an elbow striking, cracking his nose and tainting Armstrong's black hardened skin with blood soaking into his hardened dark arm, as he was swatted horizontally Ross had noticed what Armstrong was capable of, he was levitating in the FUCKING air! And with metallic debris of the metal gear EXCELSUS being sent right in his direction to top it off as well!
The Red Hulk grabbed onto a slightly larger chunk of metal and spun 180° in the air, allowing himself to leap off from it onto another debris platform underneath and jump right upwards onto a torn plasma cannon, causing it to tilt diagonally with his sheer weight and impact which the giant exploits to run and jump off of towards an oncoming torn metal gear's blade that he grabs with both his hands and uses to swing over his head to gain downwards trajectory, which simultaneously slices the EXCELSUS' enormous base remains, but then in a nod to the cover art of his source material, Armstrong encroaches from a front facing perspective of view and reaches out towards Ross, grabbing him in a chokehold by his beefy sternocleidomastoid, pausing his trajectory and causing another sonic boom from the impact of their bodies' interaction.
Red Hulk: a better man would know what's the best for his people!
Armstrong: the people should only know what's better for themselves!
Red Hulk: the people would know better then you...
Armstrong says as he tightened his grip, bursting his fingers into the Red Hulk's throat, making Ross scream in pain as Armstrong viciously grins in delight
Armstrong: Not in this state dammit! The people should fight for what they believe in!
Armstrong tightens his grip even more, making some blood gush out and steep into his skin, making the flailing Red Hulk glow in yellow and become enraged
Armstrong: Not for a bunch of dementia-ridden old fucks who feed themselves and everyone the same ol' trite peer-approved slop the media would like you to believe! The West has fallen, billions CAN only learn and thrive through their own actions, even if it means billions must die! The Founding Fathers are rolling in their grave, the American Dream as we know it has been compromised to a docile nation of submissive and fatherless [BLEEP]s!
As Armstrong monologues to Ross about his views on modern america, the increasingly heating Red Hulk tries ripping Armstrong apart but to no avail, simply disfiguring and molding his skin to molten magma around his chest and left shoulder areas from the radiated heat
Armstrong: They may fall, but at least they will fall doing what's right! Am i finally getting throu-mppphh!
Armstrong's question is interrupted by Red Hulk's grip.
Red Hulk: YOU TALK TOO MUCH!
cloaking his melting palm around Armstrong's head and welding his huge forehead onto his face, blinding and suffocating him with his own euphemistically cranial hubris, Armstrong no longer being able to use his magnetic levitation as his metallic structure has been disrupted, releases his grip in order to escape that of the Red Hulk's grasp, enabling the two's descent as they spiral in the air, Red Hulk beggins rapidly pummeling Armstrong's abdomen with his other hand as Armstrong's fingers tear deep into his heat-emitting wrist joint that further melt the skin around his fingers' into magmatic proportions!
Red Hulk: DIE!!!!!
Red Hulk retracts his fist further then usual and delivers a blow so heavy it bends Armstrong into a stooping position, and as the two bodies of destruction lose their altitude, Red Hulk places his foot underneath Armstrong's lower abdomen while pulling his vigorously churning molten limbs as Armstrong's back turns black and ignites, encases the two in flames as if they were an earth shattering meteorite.
But then as his face hardens to black, Armstrong's forehead adjusted to its former proportion allowing himself to take a deep breathe, a microscopic zoom-in reveals the nanomachines weren't melted into magma, only their exterior compound that was Armstrong's dead skin!
Armstrong: HA HA HA! CAN'T KILL ME THAD!
Ross: We'll see about about that.
Armstrong looks behind him and sees the approaching surface they are about to hit
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!![]
Their instantaneous collision with the ground created a mushroom cloud that is dispersed by the intense shockwave from their impact, from above it can be seen a stadium sized crater has been made. surrounded by pitch black ashes and dust clouds, the wounded Red Hulk rises from the ground and sees beneath his gigantic Armstrong's unconscious body foot with closed eyes and a smile on his face...
Red Hulk: War's Over, Kid.
Red Hulk kicked the laying body and turned around from it, pulling out a comedically large 80s cellphone case that was revealed to be a disguised S.H.I.E.L.D. communication device when a hologram of maria hill was projected
Maria Hill: Ross? What happened?!
Red Hulk: Made a mess, needs some pickup, I'll send you the coordinates.
Maria Hill: Elaborate.
Red Hulk: Some crook from congress thought he could take over base with nanomachine implants and run of the mill tech, potentially AIM, keep it classified from the squad too.
As Red Hulk reports to Hill about Armstrong's description the view suddenly cuts to a closing shot focusing on Armstrong's face... Who then suddenly shifts expression from relief to anger as he opens his red glaring eyes!
"HNARGH!"
Returning to Red Hulk as seen from backwards, Armstrong swiftly delivers a hook punch to the Red Giant's back head, causing him to trip and drop his com device, the Red Hulk grins and swats Armstrong with his giant arm as he turns around, which Armstrong catches onto as he is struggling to not be pushed back by its force.
Armstrong: Can't even tell the truth to your fellow peers huh T-Bone? Just as the patriots intended!
Red Hulk: Why won't you die already!?
Armstrong: Funny, I know I've heard that arguement somewhere.
Armstrong tightens his grip, penetrating with his Uber-dense metallic-like fingers into Red Hulk's flesh once again, Ross screams in pain as the Red Hulk is seething into flames, blood gushes out his forearm wounds causing it to glow in yellow, microscopically zooming into the wound's boiling substance, it is revealed the highly ionized blood cells ooze the radiation's gamma energy through yellow waves of plasma-like fluid that is assimilated by Armstrong's nanomachines penetrating into Ross' blood system, amplifying the Senator.
As the fight returns to its true scale, Armstrong stops struggling against the Red Meat Stack's exerted force and begins to slightly push him back now, Ross notices, is angered and pulls his arm back which sends Armstrong flying above his head, granting him the opportunity to grab the midair senator's leg and toss his body with his limbs flailing out in a star position as if he were a spinning shuriken, but before slamming into the wall Armstrong magnetically tucks himself in and backflips into the ground in a stand still position
Armstrong: Quit pushing around and give me some of that heat Ross! The mother of all omelets craves for that searing beef!
Red Hulk: What the hell does that even mean!?
Armstrong: It means...
Armstrong raises his arm as wind-like flare envolops his fist which he proceeds to slam down to the earth, causing a fissure to rapture columns of fire towards the Red Hulk
Armstrong: Thanks for the Energy...
With a foot stomp, the Red Hulk cracks the ground and raises a rock slope by turning his heel to absorb the fissure's impact and redirect the flare projection onto his body, absorb its energy to boost his strength and stamina, the Red Hulk he bends down from the firey geyser to take cover behind the rock slant and grabs onto the ground as he groans
Red Hulk: ERGH! How the hell did you even get elected?!
Armstrong: I told them what was right, and as the founding fathers intended i made it s--
Armstrong's answer is yet again interrupted as he lifts his head while getting up from the ground to see a wave of violent boulders rushing towards him that upon impact is disassembled into rubble as it collides with him, eventually as he stood up the rubble had been deduced to fading ashes, revealing the Red Hulk from above, holding charcoaled boulder with glowing magma seeping from its cracks twice his gargantuan size which the Red Hulk hammers onto with such intensity it shatters with glass-like texture, yet despite all of that... Armstrong's metallic black skin shrugged it off as dirt crumbling to dust, Red Hulk landed with both his feet on the ground as Armstrong nonchalantly removed his glasses and sifted his hair backwards, he somewhat cackled as he was wiping his glasses against the torn remains of his shirt
Armstrong: hahaha...Rock doesn't work against steel Thad, Hillary's campaign outta taught you that
Red Hulk: WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM YOU FRAUDULENT FUCK! WHAT DO YOU EVEN BELIEVE IS RIGHT!?
Armstrong: I've been blunt with you for this whole slugfest Thaddy-Bolt, but since you've humored me this round, I'll give you one last chance to get it through your thick skull...
Armstrong said as he looked down on his cleaned glasses and put them back on, Ross and the Red Hulk were synchronized in their rage as they grinned in anger and stared down the crooked senate
Armstrong: Starting Wars... Might making Right... American Pride... All nothing but tools, a means for this land to be sustained as the paradise our founding fathers...NAY I SAY, but rather as the uncompromising human spirit intended it to be about!
the two begin circling around each other in lax but steady positions, Armstrong's arms were loose as he looked up into the sky but the Ross' head was tightly benched over his shoulders
Armstrong: this was the land of AMERICA and it had been compromised to it's core contradictions...
Red Hulk slightly loosens his arms but slightly frowns as Armstrong looks back down to earth
Armstrong: This Nation was made for every Free Man to be Unified! Unbound by the Truth! Embraced by the World! America was the paradise where each individual would exert their own REALITY and rule it!
Red Hulk: I'd have to agree...
Armstrong smirks as the light reflects from his glasses
Red Hulk: If i was a child!
Armstrong glares in disbelief and turns to face Red Hulk who punches him, shattering his glasses and knocking him to lie face down onto the ground, Armstrong rises from the dirt and grits his teeth in anger while noticing his broken glasses as Red Hulk stoically approaches him and grabs Armstrong by his upper waist with one hand as if the Senator was but just another lonesome petty terrorist, Ross' previous wounds heal as he looks down with contempt on Armstrong who tries to release his grip and flails his limbs against him
Red Hulk: Any true patriot would know the america they chose to commit to, a true patriot would not compromise their respect for their own AMERICA. NO MATTER HOW FLAWED.
Armstrong latches onto the Red Hulk's face sockets and tries to tear them apart with his black, hardened hands but to not avail
Armstrong: Oh but would they!? Look at where this got us now Ross, the following generations lack identity, they lack freedom, they lack initiative! they fret over cheap shitty trivia and socially-materialistic factors presented by morally ambiguous fanatics you know as bureaucrats!
Armstrong shoves his thumbs to Red Hulk's eyes causing him to release his grip and cover his face with his hands while shouting in agony
Red Hulk: YOU SONOVABITCH! THAT'S ONLY HOW THE COUNTRY CAN BE PRESERVED
Armstrong: Alright... so were both patriots... sons of the patriots as they say, so what about ours then?
Red Hulk: WHAT?!
He said removing his hands from his face, expressing his returning rage
Armstrong: You should know its for the best they must know the pain and loss men like us had to endure in order for them to regain prosperity! not push it aside as "toxicity" like the metropolitan bugmen in your offspring's institutes do! not let some Epstein-type fucks in the media groom their own dreams away!
Red Hulk charges in a brief frame cut towards Armstrong with another grapple approach, but the Senator roundhouse kicks him in the knee, causing him to trample down and kneel with his hand supporting him
Armstrong: Do you ever think about the future Ross?! Did you ever raise a child? Did you ever want to protect the lives of those who matter?
Red Hulk growls to restraint his madness as Senator Armstrong approaches him while monologuing, Ross is hit with glimpses of Betty Ross as a child, his reveal to the Red She-Hulk and Annie when she comforted him underneath the Avengers' Tower rubbles, he begins to hear the hulk's terrorizing roars and his own recitial of the code of conduct within his head.
as he clenches his fists and smoke winds up from his body, he rises from the ground and backhands Armstrong with his forearm
Red Hulk: AS IF YOU'D WISH YOU COULD!
Armstrong is knocked back crouching, creating a trail of sparks to halt his momentum
Armstrong: This nation and it's people's future is like a child
Armstrong claims as he gets up, pointing his finger at Armstrong
Armstrong: a child should mature into what made us idolized as the Brave and Strong!
He said as he swinged his arms wide open while snuff his nose up, Red Hulk approaches with each step inducing more heat to the shivering ground, leaving trails of magma cracks
Red Hulk: These people deserve only the best, compromising life just for something as vague as your ideals is delusional.
Armstrong: PEOPLE CAN ONLY HAVE THE BEST IF THEY KNOW NO COMPROMISE! IT'S WHAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS KNEW! IT'S WHY COLUMBUS SET SAIL! THAT'S WHY WE LET THE PEOPLE DO OUR WORK! THEY ARE ALL JUST A MEANS FOR A BETTER END!
The Red Hulk's eye strikingly opens in a glare as he vividly envisions Annie facing him, smiling and laughing in the fields of the new hampshire barn he grew up in, following with the sound of a plane crashing and kids screaming in agony and fear, their raging cries deteriorate into that of the Hulk's as his vision fades away, revealing this battle's scene from his closing-in perspective as he approaches Armstrong, despite still hearing the sounds of jets abrasing the sky, repeating naplam strikes, rapid gun fire and his men being slaughtered effortlessly by the Hulk, Ross has ultimately become consumed by his madness, he has truly become the gamma beast he sought to vanquish in his american dream, thine's self has become...
Red Hulk, the Heat of a Nation.
Red Hulk: YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS TRULY STOOD FOR!
Red Hulk stomps the ground in anger, and enters a leaping position with his fists clenched, flames combust from below as his veins start to flow with yellow glowing energy, Armstrong stands yet again and cracks his knuckle joints
Red Hulk (Groans): YOUR A FRAUDULENT DEADBEAT...PUNK!
Armstrong: Oooo...so you're no shit but all ass!
Red Hulk leaps towards Armstrong with his arms raised, Armstrong catches his wrists and resists Red Hulk's furiously gloating hammer fists
Armstrong (Groans): So am i DAMMIT... yet that won't stop me... from giving the freedom... the people had to earn as to prove...
Armstrong gasps as he notices in shock and worry his hardened finger tips begin dilating into molten magma puddles, Red Hulk grins at his disadvantage and Armstrong reckons this and ceases to halt the Red Hulk's fists and planks down to the scorching earth, using his dark metallic back for the Red Hulk to smash his fists onto, Armstrong grits his teeth in pressure as he absorbs the impact, green light engulfs him, flames conjure around his hardened body as we see the Red Hulk tower over him and rapidly hammer his body becoming increasingly incandescent with each blow, Armstrong's eyes glow as the thermal radiation spreads to his face, as the Red Hulk pulls his glowing arm for one last blow
Armstrong: AS TO PROVE THEIR WORTH!
Armstrong punches the ground and leans over his knee
Armstrong: AND WITH IT TO FORGE THEIR OWN DESTINY!
Armstrong rises with his body arched back, arms at sides at an angle facing outwards, legs at full extension about 20 degrees from each other and unleashes a dome of seismic echoes that swifty smacks the Red hulk into curling in the air and encases the scene with intense fire that fills up the crater, erupting a gigantic ever lasting energy heat blast to the sky!
but then suddenly...
Its trajectory is interrupted as it shrinks down as kirby particles into the upper left edge, revealing the Red Hulk holding onto the crater's edge, he had siphoned the blast's energy into his body!
Red Hulk: DESTINY IS TO BE EARNED FROM FREEDOM!
He roared as it seemed like as if fire was bursting out of his mouth through his backhead (but it was the energy radiating from his body, as evident by his eyes glowing) Red Hulk clenches his radiating fist, only to see Armstrong coming from above with an elbow drop encased with electricity jolts
Armstrong: FREEDOM IS TO BE EARNED FROM DESTINY!
Red Hulk uppercuts Armstrong's lateral chest cage, bending a fist shaped cavity through the Senator's hardened shoulder, thus catching
Armstrong: ERGH!
Armstrong regenerates his wound by inverting it back to its proportions, pushing the Red Hulk's arm out of his body which causes him to flinch, Armstrong exploits that and punches him the knee as Red Hulk grabs him with his other arm and they trample downwards
Red Hulk: You were in your diapers when i was serving this country!
Armstrong: The only thing you've been serving are senile old FUCKS!
Red Hulk lands on top of Armstrong and begins whaling his fists on him, shockwave upon shockwave upon shockwave, with each blow further dilating the coal scorched crater and lighting it with firey explosions, ashes begin materializing into glass shards scattering in the air as the Red Giant pulled his meaty fist for one last blow
Red Hulk: I killed FUCKS who were better men then you!
Armstrong: Don't break my heart colonel...
Armstrong muttered out as he coughed out blood
Red Hulk: Oh it sure isn't a heart you beltway pansies have, ITS YOUR HULKING HUBRIS!
The Red Hulk nails his amplified blow and crushes Armstrong's hardened head, rapturing bits of his brain and blood from his ears before being being sunk down to his torso, crushing his tech infused-heart
Red Hulk: IT'S OVER... ITS FINALLY OVER!!!!
Or so he thought as he stood up, panting, Ross was trying to recover from his rage as to not return to his old destructive ways, But then, as seen through a microscopic zoom-in, we see the silver lining around the bleeding mush that was once the Senator's heart glow in yellow as it reforms back, Armstrong's veins begin flowing with yellow energy as his head pops back into where it was once located
Red Hulk: Huh?
Red Hulk expresses concern when witnessing this anomaly as Armstrong's body temperature begins glowing through his metallic texture as if he were made of magma, Ross tries to pull apart Armstrong's chest as the energy flows through his entire body, he places his palm on his chest in an attempt to sap his energy yet fails to receive any boost, Armstrong opens his eyes, glowing in read as he levitates from the ground with electromagnetic jolts radiating around him
Red Hulk: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?
Armstrong caught onto Red Hulk's clavicle, tearing through his flesh and muscle yet again
Armstrong: I AM ALIVE! I AM AMERICA!
Armstrong inserts his fingers through the Red Hulk's shoulders and tightens his grip, causing Red Hulk to scream in pain as he beggining to siphon energy from him, reverting his red skin into his shrinking body, thus transforming him back to the ordinary General Ross
Armstrong: Oh boy...am i gonna enjoy this... heheheheh...
Armstrong cackles as he held the struggling and depowered old general up in the air with a singular grip
Ross: You asshead! I have a family!
Ross cried out in rage, as his skin was slightly turning red, Armstrong pulls out his arm from General Ross' shoulder, bisecting his arm and tearing it apart
Armstrong: We're all american in blood T... I'll make sure they'll know...
Armstrong then proceeds grabbing his nasal bone and shattering his maximilla, Senator Armstrong had ripped Ross' upper jaw along with his mustache
Armstrong: That this fine memoir for the patriots...
Armstrong tosses Ross into the air as he briefly turns around to put his mustache in his pocket, and as he comes falling down, Armstrong exclaims vocally
Armstrong: IS WHY YOU DON'T FUCK WITH THIS SENATOR!
Armstrong bends his knee backwards and delivers a front kick to his head, ravaging it into flying bits of his skull and brain encased in red mist creating a shockwave that sends his headless body flying away, the sound of a crowd cheering and clapping was heard in the background as Armstrong jumped into the air, as if he were a superhero.
KO![]
Screen A ending: Armstrong soars through the air and lands in base, as Desperado goons spread all over the place with Sundowner greeting the Senator
Screen B ending: Ross' headless body lands on the shield helicarrier, with Nick Fury shocked at the sight of the avenger's mutilated body randomly landing on his property this instantously
Conclusion[]
Boomstick: Holy shit! The brutality! sniff God bless america!
Wiz: And you still think he did nothing wrong.
Boomstick: Eh, In love and war all is fair and fire, get it because fire and uhhh... yeah i think you can tell what i was going for here, explain it to em' Wiz...
Wiz: This was actually quite an unexpected and copiously deniable outcome at first sight but inveitably the idea that the nanomachine's density were a major factor when concluding this outcome would turn out as an axiom, as Armstrong has endured High Frequency-Blades that vibrate so intensely they cause quantum decoherences, causing atoms disrupt at the planck level.
Boomstick: the Planck Scale for reference is where simple ideas about space, time and the very elements of reality break down, and is much smaller then an atomic scale, reaching to Quantum Physics territory this means Armstrong's pressure density is physically infinite as it negates the very properties of third dimensional physicality!
Wiz: As unbelievable as it may seem, do note that in comparison; the densest known thing in the universe is nuclear pasta, which is the very core of a neutron star which may seem small in size but is actually a whole condensed star, and it wouldn't be out of the blue to say a high-frequency blade could cut it since we have seen it cleave through things larger in mass then that, which have resisted its matter defying effects.
Boomstick: No matter the mass and volume an object would possess, a quantum decoherence would simply just phase through it! And surviving multiple hits from a high frequency blade wouldn't be just defying the laws of physics, but defying any form of coherent force and exerted energy within the corporeal third dimension! Man, I am never reading that out loud!
Wiz: Now you may wonder as to why the Red Hulk couldn't simply just absorb Armstrong's energy and that would because those properties are stored within his nanomachines, and that would require Red Hulk to cause a quantum decoherence in order to do so.
Boomstick: But Boomstick! What about the Scaling? Well you see... The One Below All's Power is no longer linked to gamma mutates, the door has been closed and even then its magic is only used to grant varied powers dependent on the mutate's personality rather then what The One Below All can do.
Wiz: We also never saw Ross use it, and letting him do so would be like assuming he is just a red copy of hulk, despite being one... But only in a platonic sense...
Boomstick: Red Hulk's heat could also effect Armstrong as he has absorbed cosmic energy before and used it to hurt thor who tanked destruction on atomic levels, but his heat was only shown to be effective on the cellular level, meaning armstrong would remain unaffected and even if he was, he could always regenerate from it as Red Hulk couldn't fully destroy him, only disfigure his nanomachine's exterior structure.
Wiz: Disfiguring Armstrong would be useless considering he has shown the ability to re-shape his body if damaged when fighting Jetstream Sam.
Boomstick: Armstrong was also faster, as Ross' best speed feats were purely combat and reaction-based, and these were also purely dependent on Hulk scaling to Thor's travel speed unlike Raiden who hopscotched missiles and had his mobility doubled after that not only twice, but 10 times as well! This may not surpass Red Hulk's scaling but it is more reliable.
Wiz: Armstrong also has a stronger individual feat that didn't rely on chain scaling, the 10 magnitude earthquake Red Hulk caused was a chain event of him pummeling A-Bomb rather then a direct cause.
Boomstick: Red Hulk couldn't throw Armstrong to space since he could use his magnetism to change course, also considering how blood in the marvel universe functions as Magneto demonstrated on its humans on multiple occasions, Armstrong can use his magnetism to drain Ross' iron in his blood and absorb his gamma radiation into himself.
Wiz: And yes while Red Hulk could crush and bend Armstrong's hardened body to mortally wound his internal organs, the Nanomachines could repair his heart since it would make sense for the highest man in command of military technology manufacturers to possess every property the nanomachines grant to characters such as; Raiden's lack of blood sustence, Vamp's source material confirmed regeneration and Monsoon's Magnetic Forces.
Boomstick: Wait but wouldn't that mean he is still alive?
Wiz: Well no because unlike Ross here, Raiden actually separated it from his system, while in this case his body being entirely composed of actively empowered nanomachines still had its remainings within his system, meaning he could inevitably repair his internal damage and come back.
Boomstick: Oh yeah! There also the fact that Red Hulk couldn't absorb energy to regain his stamina and would only make empower Armstrong even more, especially when amplified by the Red Hulk's stronger attacks.
Wiz: General Ross' lack of versatility against Armstrong's nanomachines is what burnt him out.
Boomstick: The Winner is Senator Armstrong.
Next Time...[]
this was very exhuasting for me to make as the writing production took about 2 months and i fear i might be forced to change the outcome's reasoning despite being very verbal about it, so i doubt there will be a next time...
but if in my boredome i manage to actually finish writing a paragraph in my spare time that i would post here, it would about these fights.
What are these fights you may wonder? well i may reveal in the future (or as of 24 hours since posting this), but i would love to see your guesses
Trivia[]
- Potential Track Name - The Heat for a Nation
- Other Potential Track Name - American Forged Hearts
- Track Concept: It would fuse some key parts from Hulk's MVC3 Theme and Collective Conciousness, would be quite similiar to Taskforce: Ghost where it uses sound effects of explosions, metal clanging and rocks shattering to create the metallic weight and gritty scale of the fight's atmosphere while having a high pace like in IHTBTW
- A contrast i like about this fight is Armstrong's libertarian and Ross' authoritarian ideologies clashing with each other while acting in a way that contradicts their true goal being about ensuring the safety of their fellow citizens and nation's core principles
- This isn't even my favorite Matchup for Senator Armstrong, i see it more suitable as Fanon rather then an Official Death Battle Episode, especially as of the time im writing this and especially in my hands
- Writing Process has been halted (during production) due to me managing to get MGR to work on my PC (meaning i could finally play it) and looking further into Red Hulk and Annie's relationship as "a nice touch for an analysis ending"
- This has been BaselordMasterO9 (Formerly PizzaBlastX99, yes so much for a grand reveal) First Completed What-If? Fight