DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BEN 10 OR AVENGERS EMH

Hello everyone. I know you're all waiting for the new chapter of Avenging 10. But unfortunately its gonna be a while before I update that story again. So for now I give you this little teaser for an upcoming Story that will be one of many spinoffs to Avenging 10.

This little piece is primarily written by Just Q of Jade and Q. She is a brilliantly talented writer, who has taken the time to write this chapter with me. You should all visit her page and check out that stories she has written, they are amazing.

So for now, please enjoy this little taste of what is yet to come.

Cold Steel

With the moon shining above the city of New York, a stream of smoke spreads above buildings as the infamous Iron Man flies over the sky. Where he's headed, nobody knows but him and his allies.

With his purple armor reflecting the moonlight, Victor Von Doom scans the area through the HUD in his helmet as his A.I., L.U.C.I.A, also known as Latverian Unity Carrier-bot of Intelligence and Analytics, speaks to him, saying, "Sir, Crimson Dynamo and his Armored Assassins are still at their warehouse. Would you like me to call Benjamin and Amora for reinforceme–"

"That won't be necessary. Benjamin is at Iran and Amora is guarding the mansion." Doom says to his AI as he continues flying. Upon reaching the boarded up and nearly crumbing warehouse of the armored criminals, Doom lands in front of the building and heads to the literal front door. Aiming his right fist at the entrance, a small blaster pops up from wrist and releases a stream of energy at it, obliterating the door. To his surprise, Doom finds the entire inside of the warehouse to be completely frozen and covered in ice everywhere.

With caution growing in his mind, he activates and releases two drones from his shoulder pads, with both machines activating their headlights and scanners to patrol the area ahead. Doom follows the drones as he walks, crushing the ice beneath him with his iron boots. As he turns his head left and right to scan the area himself, the fourth time he turned his head to his right made him recoil back as he spots a dead man inside a pillar of ice.

"L.U.C.I.A." Doom commands his AI.

As if the artificial intelligence already knew, it responded with scanning the dead man and she replies, "Ivan Vanko, also known as Whiplash, member of the Armored Assassins."

Doom scoffs and replies, "I hated him the least, but he's still a criminal."

"Drones have scanned other members. All KIA. Spymaster, Ghost and Titanium." L.U.C.I.A. tells her creator as the drones she mentioned return to Doom's shoulders.

"But no Crimson Dynamo... Where is he–"

"So this whole time, you just assumed my gender?"

A deep, distorted voice boomed throughout the warehouse, which made Doom jump and turn only for a gigantic metal fist to punch him in the face. The force of the punch had the power of a speeding train, sending Doom out of the warehouse, leaving behind a hole in the wall that has his body shape.

After crashing on the ground and bouncing a couple of times before hitting a crate that stops his momentum, the hole in the wall expands when a giant mechanical suit goes through. Designed to be as large as the Hulk with blue and red coloration and designs all over the suit, Crimson Dynamo menacingly walks towards Doom as he fires ice beams from the repulsors on his hands. Each blast froze each limb Doom has, disabling his ability to move as Dynamo nears him.

"I think it's time I show who you've been dealing with, Victor!" Crimson Dynamo mocks his enemy as he opens his chest plate...

...And reveals the pilot within. A woman wearing a golden mask with a skin tight blue suit with a white line in the middle and shoulder pads, gauntlets and boots which seem to be made of ice.

"Hello, Victor." The woman says to the hero as she steps out of the machine as her hands glow with a white, chilling aura. "Miss me?"

"Whitney Frost. When you were given that last name, I did not think you'd take it seriously..." Doom attempted to stall through a half-hearted quip as, unknown to the villainess, a small drone, almost the size of a penny, detaches itself from his back and sneaks away.

The chilly criminal continues to approach Doom before kneeling in front of him and caressing his suit's faceplate as she makes it freeze. Within his helmet, Doom's HUD is glitching out and showing static due to Frost's actions. "You people always did disgust me. The rich and powerful. You don't care about us." Frost tells Victor with so much tranquil fury as his helmet is starting to freeze over.

"I help people everyday, witch. Why did you think I made my suits?" Doom pointed out.

However, what he got was a loud, sarcastic laugh from the Madame with a masque before slapping the Iron Hero's frozen helmet, which began to crack from her backhand alone. "You think I don't see through you?! You claim to save lives when you only use this to boost your fame! You and Stark... You billionaire gluttons!" Frost yelled at the hero, forcefully placing her heeled shoe on his frozen helmet, attempting to drill through it.

"Stark is unstable but he makes his tools for the safety of mankind. And you? What about you? I've been fighting you and your assassins ever since I put on this suit. You've been attacking large-scale companies... Then you kill your own members!" Doom berated her when he finally activates his uni beam and fires a large laser from his chest piece that even blasts off Frost's leg from her body.

However, what Victor did not expect is that instead of screaming in pain, Frost merely replaced her torn off limb with one made of ice as she creates an entirely new leg from her stump where her severed body part used to be. "I only hired them so we can destroy people like you, but I started to see they're enjoying slaughter. I only needed to bring down those companies with low casualties as possible aside from their owners... but they kept killing." Frost explained her motivations further as she fires ice from her hands to try and freeze Victor once more, but he blasts through his current ice casings with his repulsors to escape and dodge the incoming beam. "So I'm sinking two ships with one iceberg. I'm taking out the corrupt and killing crime while I'm at it!" She droned on and kept firing her beams of ice at Victor. But the Armored Hero kept dodging with his armor moving as fast as the speed of sound.

"Are you even listening to yourself, Dynamo?! You're insane!" Victor yelled and launched small missiles from his shoulder mounted rocket launchers, to which Frost responds by erupting a wall of ice in front of her to block the barrage.

"I am no longer Crimson Dynamo!" Frost yells as she comes out of the smoke and steam made by the explosion by creating a pillar of ice below her to rise above her enemy while her hands glow with an icy aura. "I was a fool to try and mock you through Stark's stolen tech being used against you, when I should've went for your tech... And I did. With your experimental Cryo Extremis serum... I am... Blizzard!" She revealed her new name, and true to her new title, she began creating a storm of hail and ice around her.

Victor lands back on the ground to try to wipe off the moisture in his helmet's visor made by Blizzard trying to freeze his head earlier, but no such luck as his helmet's crack is getting worse, growing more the more he tries to touch his faceplate.

"LUCIA. Are you still active?" Doom asks his AI, which immediately responds, but her voice is rather choppy and lagging.

"Y-Yes Sir– Sir– Sir. But– ERROR– my systems are failing– failing– failing– failing. Any last request-quest-quest, sir?" L.U.C.I.A. attempted to reply.

Blocking a boulder made of ice created by Blizzard, Doom replies, "I can still operate the suit but without you, I cannot multitask. Call it in."

"Roger th-tha-that. Calling in Iron Man Armor Model Forty Fou–" L.U.C.I.A. initiated before she suddenly stopped talking and deactivated.

Not wasting time to figure out if L.U.C.I.A. actually managed to call for his suit or not before she shut down, Victor takes off his helmet and began firing his repulsors at Blizzard.

But this did not inconvenience Blizzard the slightest as she created ice shields with each blast Iron Man makes before she unleashed a hail of ice shards at him.

Normally, Victor won't bother as ice shards would most likely shatter at his tough armor, but his face is exposed right now and he won't risk getting his head pierced. Even if he had kept his helmet on, it would still shatter due to it already being frozen earlier.

He proceeds to activate his boots and repulsors to bob and weave and avoid the shards as much as possible.

Blizzard did not stop as she kept laughing while her powers began giving an unexpected side effect: her hair began turning white like snow as she kept firing shards at Victor.

Not letting the villain have all the fun, Doom began firing his repulsors at her and at the shards coming for him. Unfortunately, like before, Blizzard merely blocked his blast or she dodges them by creating more ice pillars for her jump to.

Deep inside his mind, Victor liked it better when she was just another villain in a suit.

Going for the skies this time, Iron Man flew up into the night sky and fired more of his mini missiles to rain on Blizzard's parade. This time, she is forced to keep moving as she began creating a path of ice for her to slide on and keep moving.

Iron Man kept raining missiles from the skies as Blizzard kept moving around with her ice slide, eventually being forced out of the small area they're in and into the city skyline. The Armored Hero follows her and propels himself towards her with his suit.

As Blizzard manoeuvres herself around the city and the buildings within it, she looks back to see Victor relentlessly following her but not firing at her. She smirks under her mask once she realized Victor has to be carefully in this new battlefield or he'll accidentally miss Blizzard and hit a building, a car or anything with innocent people in it instead.

Taking advantage of this, she leads her ice slide into a nearby bridge railway and creates a gigantic ice wall in the middle of one of the rails, just in time as the train occupying this railing is already a few minutes away from colliding with the newly made wall.

As Frost laughs and continues to escape with her ice slide, Iron Man noticed what she had done and, with his heroic instinct, growls in anger as his enemy escape while he's forced to fly towards the incoming train and stop it with his armored hands.

"Hit the brakes!" Victor yells at the driver of the train that's currently facing him from within his spot at the front of the locomotive. With no hesitation but a lot of panic, the old driver pulls the breaks on the train, causing its wheels to halt. The deactivated wheels scratch on the railing, creating sparks as both the driver and Iron Man try their best to stop this vehicle and prevent civilian casualties.

"Hold on!" Victor exclaimed as he has his rocket boots blast at full power while he tries his best to keep pushing the speeding train.

Blizzard returns to the warehouse to take back her Crimson Dynamo suit. As she halts her ice slide and jumps off of it, she winces a bit at her leg made of ice. The whole time, she's been holding back the pain ever since her real leg was severed. The ice from her self-made prosthetic leg is stopping the bleeding, but not the pain. In fact, the chill makes it worse.

"My leg is the least of my worries. I can still reuse this suit to make myself stronger..." Blizzard tells herself as she walks towards the red mech.

"Forgive me, Frost, but you're not getting away that easily."

Blizzard turns around to see Iron Man just landing as he burns the ground beneath him with the jet streams from his boots before they meet the scorched floor.

"You're a hypocrite. You claim to destroy the corrupt and crime to save the innocent yet you literally just endangered the lives of multiple people... just to distract me. You're a mess, Frost." He said quite confidently, crossing his arms as he spoke.

Blizzard grit her teeth within her mask as she growls and makes a complete turn to fire a large beam of ice at Iron Man, but the Latverian ruler noticed that this large beam is weaker than it seems. He merely fires a beam from his chest piece to counter Blizzard's attack, which was effective as the clash of the two beams made an icy explosion that knocks back the villainess on her rear.

With her brain only filled with rage now rather than common sense, Blizzard screams in rage as she began creating a whirlwind of cold around her.

But the genius merely smirked as a large dark figure crash lands down behind him, which caused even Blizzard to pause as whatever is now behind Victor, it's towering over him.

Her question got answered when the smoke clears and the Moon's light shines down upon them to reveal Victor's new suit: Iron Man Model 44.

20 feet tall, black and yellow painted carbonadium laced with titanium and some adamantium, a powerful minigun mounted on the left arm, a cannon extended onto it's right shoulder, a powerful laser and another minigun that can be extended found on the left shoulder, the repulsor outputs are located both in the palms, like most of his armors, and in the back of the gauntlets.

"The Extremis serums were a mistake. When I heard someone had stolen one of the cryo samples, I knew that down the line I would face someone with the abilities that will be granted by my mistakes." Victor explained as the chest piece of the newly arrived suit opens and grabs it's creator to place him inside itself in order for Doom to pilot it, closing it's chest piece once he was in and a new HUD appears before his face.

"Welcome back, sir." L.U.C.I.A., recovered and now within the Extremis Buster Armor, spoke to her creator. "Or is it I you must welcome back?" LUCIA corrects herself as Doom makes his new suit move with his thoughts using a device attached to the back of his head.

However, Iron Man ignores his AI as he makes the suit move forward and walk towards the villainess. Out of defensive instinct, Blizzard fires another beam of ice at her towering foe, but what she did not expect is her ice beam striking an energy shield that appears out of nowhere. When her blast subsides, the shield disappears, revealing that there seems to be an invisible force field around the armored hero.

"Like I was saying, Blizzard. I knew I would face Extremis enhanced enemies sooner or later. So I made this one specifically to combat those who used it." Victor continued his explanation before aiming all his weapons at the ice themed supervillain.

"W-Wait!" was all that escaped Blizzard's lips but Doom did not heed her pleading. Instead, he fires all his weapons at her, sending her way a rain and barrage of bullets, lasers and missiles. In a state of panic Blizzard fired at the ground in front of her to create yet another wall of ice to block all of the incoming death. Out of understandable paranoia, she focused more of her power to keep freezing the wall she made to make it harder and into blue ice, the purest and toughest form of ice.

As Iron Man kept having his weapons keep firing at the wall Blizzard had wrought, he heard L.U.C.I.A. voice chime in over his helmets internal speakers. "Sir, she's turned her blockade into a stronger variant of ice. I suggest a focus fire on one area to weaken it completely."

"I was thinking the same thing. Reroute all power to the uni beam and focus on the lower middle of the wall. That's where Frost will most likely be." Victor commanded and his suit promptly stop firing all it's main weapons before his chest area begins glowing and, after a short time, immediately fires a larger, hotter and more powerful beam.

With this new attack focused on where Blizzard is, the ice wall she made eventually melts at her spot and finally blasts her, effectively destroying her suit, mask and her self made prosthetic leg as she screams in a lot of pain.

As the beam began dimming and shrinking down to a line and eventually into nothing, Victor noticed that his attack not only punched through the ice wall, but also the warehouse behind Blizzard.

Speaking of whom, Blizzard somehow survived the attack. However, she had lost her suit and mask, making her sort of naked as it is now revealed that the Cryo Extremis had taken it's toll on her body. Like before, her black hair had turned as white as snow, but now, wearing nothing to hide herself, her skin seems to have turned completely into ice. Even with her breasts exposed, the way her skin had become makes it look like she has no areolas or even nipples. She's like a living ice sculpture with only one leg.

"You... you... son of a... You'll pay for this!" Blizzard yelled at her sworn enemy before she crawls towards her Crimson Dynamo suit. With her prosthetic leg gone, it's all she has to be able to move again.

Instead of going after Frost, however, Victor watches her crawl within his suit. When she finally reached it, Blizzard pulls herself up into the suit and closes it's chest area to pilot it before leaving the scene as her foe watches her fly off...

...And then he suddenly spoke to his AI, "Detonate it."

Blizzard couldn't help but cry at her own failure, with each teardrop she makes immediately freezing once it left her eyes.

As she sets some coordinates for her escape...

...a small drone suddenly crawls over on her holographic screen meant for her HUD. The very same drone Doom released earlier.

It began glowing and ticking like an actual bomb. Blizzard stopped crying... And for one last time... She needs to remind herself that she used to be just Whitney Frost...

"Damn heroes..." Whitney tells herself with a small fake smile on her face as the drone starting to glow brighter.

The sky is lit up as Iron Man stares at it while Crimson Dynamo explodes in mid air. Target eliminated.

"No vitals detected in debris. Blizzard has been destroyed." LUCIA tells her creator after a quick scan in the sky.

Victor Von Doom did not respond any further and takes his AI's word. Before he can prepare his mech's boosters, a call appears on his HUD, with the image of a short, blonde haired woman wearing a green, star spangled suit. "What is it, Queen Marvel?" Victor asks his caller.

"First, I told you to call me Amora. Queen Marvel is my hero name." Queen Marvel, also known as Amora of Asgard, tells her friend, sporting a scowl to emphasise her displeasure. However, her scowl changed into a frown with complete sorrow as she adds, "And... Ben has returned from Iran."

"Did he...?" Victor asks the Asgardian Enchantress.

All he got from Queen Marvel is a sigh, followed by her next words...

"Phoenix down."

So as many of you have probably figured out by now. This Story will be drawing inspiration from Justice League: Gods and Monsters. It shows how different Ben's life would've turned out if his arrival into the Marvel world was a little different that what originally happened. Hope you all enjoyed it. If you have any questions, you can message me and Ill try to answer.

A huge special thanks to Just Q for doing this for me. I am truly a lucky guy for having you in my life. ;)

Until Next time, CaptainRex75 out.