Crusaders Sink Captain Zemo

Director of S.H.I.E.L.D Rogers visit was going perfectly till an old enemy swung into terrifying action, shooting Rogers out of the sky and sending his flying car crashing into the middle of Oxford street. With the vehicle down and smoldering 'Stephenson' power armour decended and surrounded the crash site to provide cover for Rogers and his S.H.I.E.L.D ground based protection team.
As the five power armours and twelve crack troops took up defensive positions giving Rogers time to excape the wreck their enemies organised and then struck with devastating results! From the skies came the devastating force that is Masterman; a Nazi villain who has battled now deceased German hero Blitzkreig many times. His targets were clear and as he hammered into the power amroured protectors as the leader of this evil force struck the S.H.I.E.L.D agents.
Baron Zemo led Batroc the Leaper, The Whirlwind, Flagsmasher and the new female Beetle into the street, dowing the S.H.I.E.L.D soldiers in seconds and effectively cutting off any escape routes Rogers could have taken, something he obviously had no intention of doing anyway! With Flagsmasher and Whirlwind splitting to help Masterman destroy the Stephenson armours; killing three of the pilots on the scene, Zemo declared his team to be called The Axis of Evil and that their goal was simply to finally kill Rogers.
The battle between the power armours and Masterman and his assistants continued as Rogers desperatly tried to stay alive, help coming in the form of The Crusader Urban who arrived  and entered the battle, valiantly taking on Batroc the Leaper, giving Rogers only two villains to dodge. Urban led Batroc into a quieter area of the street at which point two Bow Street Runners took a terrifying risk and attempted to blindside Batroc, they were doomed to fail.
Curbstomp and Scots Kiss both jumped in and attacked but were brutally taken down by The Leaper, though luckily they escaped with only concusions and minor fractures. Urban was soon after shot in the back and Rogers was covered in Zemo's awesomely hard Adhesive X leaving him prone and at the Axis of Evils mercy. At this point it looked like Oxford street would be host to the third death of Steve Rogers and not the forging of a legend, yet a legendary battle is what followed and a victory that will be talked about for years to come.
From the smoke came The Crusaders, Apex, Anathema, Not Alice, Sinner, Fung Chi and Gamma. As they broke into the battlefield they selected their targets and showed incredible maturity for such a young and low powered team. Many groups would select The Masterman as their main priority and try to bring him down quickly but Gamma obviously knows his tactics and understands the first rule of any superhuman conflict, remove the leader! Apex came along the pavement and threw a newspaper stand at Zemo that bounced off the Nazi lunatics shoulder, he fired back and downed Apex for a few seconds but that cost him dearly as from the skies came sinner who smashed into Zemo with his forcefield and blew the Axis of Evils leader across the battle and out of the fight! Two blows that surely sent a message to every villain team on the planet, two blows that told them; 'We know how to stop you!'
Fung Chi was intercepted on his way through the smoke by masterman and had his bike smashed as down the street Batroc the Leaper entered into a duel with Anathema. Their battle was brutal as though The Crusader was obviously out matched by his opponents skill he certainly wasn't going to beaten in grit, Not Alice unleashed her terrifying scream and Gamma tusseled with The Beetle after removing the target, Rogers himself, from the battlefield by phasing through the floor, displaying yet more powers that have the experts wondering if their is something that Gamma cant do?
As the battle progressed it looked like Flagsmasher and Masterman would simply prove too powerful when backed up by Whirlwind and Batroc, but as qucikly as Not Alice was downed by Masterman Sinner was striking again, this time doing damage to Batroc while Gamma used Beetle as a baseball bat against Masterman and then The Whirlwind. 
Fung Chi had lured Whirlwind into a trap that saw him fall down a manhole and so out of the fight for vital seconds, giving The Crusaders time to rally, get Not Alice back on her feet and take out Batroc. With the Leaper down and Beetle following quickly afterwards only Flagsmasher, Masterman and Whirlwind were left against the six battle worn Crusaders. It was at this point that Fung Chi released the beast with Apex as backup. The pair of them hammered  Masterman and brought the Nazi powerhouse down and then sent him crashing across the street as they made a world class strongman look like a guy way out of his depth.

Masterman was in trouble as Flagsmasher made a mess of Apex only to be beaten down seconds later and as The Crusaders pushed the advantage Masterman had obviously had enough and took to the air and away. Whirlwind tried to do the same but flew straight into Sinners forcefield and a brutal thrown mace, borrowed by Apex(?) from the unconcious Flagsmasher. Whirlwind joined his comrades on the floor and The Crusaders were victorious!
In amongst the battle were moments of bravery from Bow Street Runners leader Yeti and spokesman Freestyle who brought medical attention to the surviving Stephenson pilots, all done while the battle raged around them!
With the enemies down The Crusaders helped the authorities to control the fires and reduce the amount of damage done to the area due to the battle. The Stephenson pilots were removed to hospital and recieved treatment for injuries sustanined in the battle, S.H.I.E.L.D agents were removed to secure locations and Rogers himself helped to co-ordinate the clean up effort.


Batroc The Leaper



With the containment process well underway the villains were removed from the area and The Crusaders retired to get some well needed rest, having to carry Anathema with them as he keeled over and could not be revived on the scene.

With the smoke clear and bruises heeling we can look at the event that is sure to stamp The Crusaders authority on this island and stand as a warning to other villains that if you wish to conduct illegal business in this great land then you will have to go through them first, something that Zemo backed by Masterman could not do.



Anathema had a quiet battle but as the footage is poured over it seems that he was conducting more than just a campaign of self preservation, could his biological control powers have taken the next step and moved beyond the constraints of just touch? Time will tell, but of course Zemo wont, he will be taking all his meals through a straw for the time being in the prison cafeteria.

Verity Luce. 

Flagsmasher