Victor Von Doom's castle sat at the top of hill overlooking the small town in his kingdom of Latveria. His Doom bots patrolled his halls and his servo guards worked ever diligently on what ever task Doom had given them. Today he sat in his throne room calm and relaxed as he waited for his newest invention to click to life. His bots worked on his creation and for as long as it was on now he still had no response from it. Victor was about to give up and hatch a new plan when one of his bots came to get him. Victor stood slowly from his throne as his eagerness over took him."Well?" He asked his machine walking over to him.
"I believe we have made contact with someone from another world." The bot answered him.
"Hm, well then let's find out." He said as his pace quickened to a stride. He moved rapidly through his castle halls to his lab ready to discover what possibilities he had the potential to unlock. He reached the lab faster than he expected and pushed the metal doors open. The room echoed with the sound of electric crackling, and a monitor buzzed with static on a giant machine that his bots worked on continuously. He walked to the front and one of his bots placed another throne behind him which he sat in instinctively. "You said we may have found something yes? Then connect me to whom ever is there." He ordered. His hands shook with anticipation and he could barely contain a smile. The monitors picture came into focus and a man turned to look a bit surprised at what just happened. The two men looked at each other for a moment both not recognizing the person looking back at finally came to his senses as the thrill dwindled away and he realized they were sitting in silence. So he thought it best to introduce himself. "I am Doctor Victor Von Doom. Who may I ask am I speaking with?"
"Victor Von Doom? I'm afraid that name is lost to me. More curious though is how you managed to find me, Doctor." The man replied not giving his name just yet.
"Huh, well if I must this meeting is one of chance you see. I created a machine to speak across world's and you just happened to be on the receiving end Mr.?" Doom explained and calmly asked the man he was talking with.
"Savage, Vandal Savage. Chance you say Doctor? Chance is something I am familiar with, but what it has in store is always the better question." Vandal answered back still intrigued by the man in the mask on his screen.
"Well it can hold limitless possibilities but only under the right circumstances. For instance, what do you know of the agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D?" Doom asked waiting for the answer he was hoping would be nothing.
"S.H.I.E.L.D? I'm afraid it doesn't exist." Savage answered back.
Doom laughed hard at the answer he was given. His machine had worked and that meant there was no S.H.I.E.L.D or Nick Fury, but what of the others?"Forgive my out burst. It's always exciting when a new invention works. I wonder do you know of the Avengers or the Fantastic Four?" Doom asked as he collected himself.
"Once again those names elude me. Should they mean something to me? These questions are becoming a nuisance." Savage responded growing impatient of this game his caller was playing.
"No they aren't supposed to mean anything to you, but to me, to this world, they mean a great deal. The names I gave you are of the so-called heroes of my world. Fools with a twisted notion of peace and equality. Men and women who would defend these principles with their lives, and now I found a world where they don't exists. Where they were never born or dreamed of." Victor answered back calmly now and more collected of himself.
"Ah I see, so to you then that would be equal to my world's Justice League, the Teen Titans and the like, and my guess is the groups I have mentioned aren't a thought in your world." Savage told him as he slowly started to pace side to side in his room."So I imagine that my assumption is correct, so tell me what good does it do to know our world's are here?"
"Well I have plans that I can put into motion under two conditions. The first being whether you would work with me, and the second is whether or not your world has a sorcerer supreme who watches over the gateways to other dimensions and worlds." Doom told him as the wheels in his head began to spin, his plans coming to fruition before him.
"Ah him I know of, in this world he is known as . An ancient Lord of Order who keeps balance in the world." Savage informed Doom.
"In my world his name is Doctor Strange. So now that we know this, here is my proposal. Join me, we work together to build a device that when activated will forge our world's together. Our heroes will be lost and with luck they will destroy each other. If not we gather the so-called villains of our world and team up to remove them ourselves. Well Savage, what do you say?" Doom said standing to his feet and walking towards his screen.
"I admit Victor, I'm intrigued, but a single device to do that much work could take some time to build. Instead build two a positive emission device and a negative one. They will attract each other and could be easier to make. My only problem is how do we deal with the sorcerer's?" Savage told him honestly impressed with this mans works and his drive.
"A simple pulse bomb capable of cutting off the flow of magic in an area for a short time. At least long enough for us to do what we must. I can find how those S.H.I.E.L.D agents made neural inhibitors and change its purpose." Victor thought to himself. He could test it himself to see if his magic would work.
"Indeed send over some schematics for that neural Inhibitor and we can get to work. After that killing those two and planting the mechanisms should be simple work. I can work on the negative and you the positive we share the data and then work from there. How does that sound?" Savage asked.
"Agreed, I will send you the data on building this transdimensional communicator so we can stay in contact, after that I will send you any data we might need for this to work." Victor agreed and began to tell his bots to work.
"Sounds like a plan. Looking forward to working with you Doctor." Savage said as a wide smile stretched across his face.
"I as well Savage." Doom told him and cut off communications. Once Savage helped him meet his goal he would remove him from the picture. Doom would finally rule the world and there would be no heroes to defend it. He walked out the room laughing as his cape bellowed in the wind. He walked over to the window and looked out to the horizon knowing soon it would be a new one before one in which he was in control of.
Vandal was impressed with the information he had received from Doom. He started work on building the communicator and then he would be able to use Doom to further his goals. He had an eternity to wait, plot, and act out his plans. This meeting might have moved him up a few years. Savage would sit atop a throne of dead bodies and rule the world. Nothing would stop him, but working with this man was definitely the next few months the two super villains exchanged data on their work and on the heroes and villains of their universe's. They learned strengths, weaknesses, and tactics employed by all of them. They discussed plan upon plan of ways to make their enemies suffer. To say the least the two men revelled in each others thoughts. After six short months of working together the geniuses finished both devices and a locator to find the right gateway to activate the machines. They were ready to set their plans in motion and nothing would stop them.
Doom needed to keep S.H.I.E.L.D away from New York City so he sent a squadron of his servo bots and a Doom replica to Wakanda to pull the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D away so he could get to home. He knew the odds of the doctor being called away were slim since magic wasn't involved, but after equipping his armor with the magic dampener he would have little to fear from the sorcerer supreme. He would have to move quickly to stop him from calling S.H.I.E.L.D and having them ruining things. Perhaps killing the doctor would be the best answer after all. Doom sent his attack force to Wakanda and seated himself in his throne awaiting for a response from his attack force that S.H.I.E.L.D was in fact there. After a few hours the call came in, the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D were in Wakanda helping the Black Panther fend off an attack. He jumped from his throne and moved quickly to his transporter that would leave him in his embassy in New York City and from there he headed for his true goal, the Sanctum Santorum on Bleecker Street. Doom hoped that Savage would have the same luck in his attempt or all of this would be for nothing. Time was of the essence and so was stealth, this was what would leave him a king or have everything come crashing down.
Vandal had made good use of the money he had accumulated over the past few centuries and paid off a few mercenaries, the league of shadows, and various other small time villains to cause a mess in the big cities where his heroes were from. He targeted Matropolis, Gotham, and Metro City for his attacks, while he used the tracker that they created to find the home of Doctor Fate. Once he found it he would have to set off the magic inhibitor as soon as Fate showed up, this would make dealing with the Lord of Order too easy. After traveling to Salem, Massachusetts to find the home of the Lord of order. He found its hiding place and entered the giant tower. Savage was impressed, tower was far larger on the inside then it had appeared outside. He cleared him mind and looked around for the gateway to Dooms universe. The two of them had developed trackers that could find each other and lead them to the gateways where they could activate the devices to fuse their worlds. He made his way around the interior and headed in the direction his tracker was leading him when suddenly a flash of light shone bright in the air above him, and a glowing Ank appeared and from the inside Doctor Fate manifested himself. A smile appeared on Savages face as he prepared himself for this.
"This place is sacred and you were not invited here, what purpose do you have?" Doctor Fate said as the Ank behind him disappeared and he floated high above Vandal.
"Ah, The great Doctor Fate. I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of making your acquaintance. Here I thought you would be taller and more magical. My name is Vandal Savage and I was hoping you could help me find a door way to another dimension. You see I've grown bored of this one." Savage told him being as honest as he could.
"The passage ways between world's are no joke and are not meant for the eyes of mortals, leave here now or I will remove you." Fates voice boomed all around the halls and passageways around the two men.
"Now here I thought you heros were all about helping people. If you won't help I can just find it myself." Savage said as he walked ahead moving closer to Fate to make sure the magic inhibitor would hit him.
"No this is when you leave!" Fate started to chant a spell and Savage quickly set off the magical inhibitor the pulse went off and hit Doctor Fate hard. The loss of magical energy in the area caused him to fall from the sky and hit the ground hard. Savage walked over slowly and unsheathed his long sword.
"Shame how easy it is to defeat a lord of order when he can't use magic." Savage remarked happy to see that the bomb actually did work.
"You have no idea what powers you..." Savage gave him a quick kick to the head knocking the helmet off and reverting back into Kent Nelson. The change took Savage by surprise. "Wasn't expecting that. Interesting how does that work?" Savage asked grabbing the old man by the throat and lifting him up into the air.
"It matters little Savage, what ever you're planning. The league will stop you!" Kent told him struggling to fight off the man holding him, but Savage was far too strong for the elder man and with no magic there was nothing he could do.
"You are right about one thing. It doesn't matter." Savage thrusts his sword into Kent's chest stabbing him through the heart. "But the league will have bigger things to worry about." Savage tossed the old man aside and looked over at the helmet. He picked it up and continued his journey further into the lair of the late Doctor Fate.
Doom stood at the three-story house known to few as the Sanctum Santorum. He walked to door and melted the lock clean off, he knew causing blowing up the door to get in would push his plan backwards. He pushed the door open and walked into the house cautiously making sure he wasn't seen just yet. It was quiet as he entered and pushed the door shut behind him. Victor looked at his tracker and prepared himself for what might come. He made his way upstairs ignoring all the closed doors, they were of no importance he needed to find the right one, the only one he needed for his plan to succeed. As he made his way down a hallway a door behind him opened quickly and a bright light shown in as Doctor Strange entered the hall and made eye contact with Doom.
"Good evening Victor, I wasn't expecting a house call from another doctor, so what can I help you with?" Strange asked being as kind as he could be. He knew Doom was powerful and didn't want to provoke him needlessly.
"Hello Stephen do pardon my intrusion, I'm so used to S.H.I.E.L.D barging in on me I thought I would give it a try, but perhaps you could help me. I'm looking for a door." Doom answered him making light of his trespassing.
"I can in fact help you with that, have you tried Home Depot, or perhaps IKEA? I hear they have great doors...mine how ever aren't toys for you." Stephen answered now more concerned with what Doom might be up to.
"Hm you misunderstand doctor, I need a door to another world, dimension rather, and I know it would be easy for you to find it for me, but if you insist on being difficult. We can do this the hard way." Doom said threatening him.
"I don't think you understand who you're threatening Doom! I am the Sorcerer Supreme." Stephen prepared himself and started to focus his magic to attack Doom. He knew holding back would mean his defeat here.
Victor set off his magical inhibitor as Stephen began to prepare his attack. The pulse pushed Stephen back and left him dazed for a moment, after that he dropped to the ground clenching his hands as the pain returned to his hands that he did not feel for many years. Victor walked over to him and raised his hand blasting Strange with a bolt of lightning. Strange flew back and crashed into the wall behind him as more pain shoot through his body. The electric current traveled through every inch of his body, and without his magic there was little Stephen could do at this point to defend himself. He looked up at Doom as he walked over to him again and pointed a finger at him. A bright flash shone from the finger tip and then Strange felt an intense pain in his leg. Doom shot a laser from his finger that pierced right into Strange's right leg."Now then about that door doctor?" Doom asked.
"...Ne..Never Victor. As long as I live, your plan shall not come to fruition. I will not let you succeed." Strange told him fighting back as much pain as he could.
"What a shame Strange, I guess I have no choice but to end your life and find my door. I would've let you witness the new world I was about to create, but no one stands in the way of Doom!" Victor said placing his hand over the doctors head and laughed. Victor released one focused blast from his hand and took Strange's head clean off. Victor smiled over his triumph and looked down at the necklace Strange wore around his neck and saw an eye glowing and looking back up at him. The eye of Agamotto closed slowly and Victor pulled it over what was left of the doctors neck. He looked at his arm and a hologram popped up of where he needed to go to find the door. He climbed more stairs, traveled through halls, and finally found his door. His heart beat raced as he readied himself for the next part of his plan he started to set up the device for the fusion and waited to hear from Savage.
Victor finally had finished setting up when his communicator went off with a message from Savage telling him he found his door. Victor told him the same, and the two men activated the start-up sequence and counted down in unison. It didn't take long for them activate, and the devices whirred into life. A low buzz sounded and then a boom rang out, like the sound of thunder before a heavy storm, and echoed all around them. The two devices kicked into life and pulled the doors off their hinges. A pulse emanated from the doors and shoot through both worlds joining them slowly together. The worlds around the two men began to change, but the pulse stretched further then they could have foreseen and it wasn't just their world's that began to collide but their entire universe's. Doom stood silent for a moment his cape blowing heavily from the rushing energy passing around him. He started to laugh softly and then began to laugh harder and more menacing. After a moment he calmed himself and said softly. "Now with this there is nothing that can stand in the way of Doom and my new world! This world will finally be long to Doom!"
At the same time Savage watched as the same phenomenon happened around him. He smiled softly to himself and thought the same as Doom."There is no longer anything that can stand in my way. With this man's technology and power I will rule this new dying world."
The pulses flew through out both universe's as the devices continued to pull and fused their worlds. The two men truly had no idea what they just unleashed. All of space twisted and melded together, planets, and cities became jumbled masses. Prisons were torn open and the inhabitants were released. From the simplest of mad men to the worst of locked up monsters. The world's they knew were changed now and might never be returned to normal. S.H.E.L.D and the Justice League had much greater problems to deal with now, and no clue where to start.
Doom thought it best to return to Latveria so that if S.H.I.E.L.D did turn up he would be safe. He didn't need to worry about the devices being found they were set to destroy themselves after all was done. He turned and walked out the crumbling Sanctum Santorum and made his way down the shaking streets of Manhattan as another city began to appear around him. He made it back to his embassy and then teleported back to his castle and watched as his new horizon appeared just as he envisioned it.