They were too late the blue beam of energy raced into the sky and warped it, almost as though it struck the vastly blue expanse. Then it punctured it. And the sky was pulled into space, the sky was blown open and a view of space was shown. Ironman was firing repulsor bolts at the device trying to shut it down, when suddenly the beam pulsed and the vortex in the sky flashed, and pulsed. And then as it stabilised something fell out of it.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
The figure focused for a second and pulled a scythe out of thin air, streamlined himself before his flight path began to change and he began to fly.
They could now make out a man in dark robes as he began to descend onto the rooftop. Landing in front of the group he spoke, "Hello, When, Where and what planet am I on?"
This was said in english.
"Er, the year is 2011, we are in new york, on earth?"
"Hmm, I do not see the JLI building so I assume I am not in that universe. so I managed to get myself in yet another parallel dimension. Damn it. Hold on, I need to make a call."
The odd man put his hand into his pocket, pulling out a small lighter. Flipping it open he lit it, oddly enough it burned with a bright green flame.
Then he spoke to the flame only speaking the word, "Henchgirl."
The flame flickered, temporarily turned blue and and then spoke, "Hello, Henchgirl here! Who's there!"
"Mr. Black, I got ported to another dimension, again, after I finished sorting out genesis, I will call Kara in a bit, but I thought I should warn you ."
He quickly shut the lighter before reopening it "Kara," he intoned.
"Joe! What happened? Did something go wrong? What happened at Genesis? Are you OK? When are you coming back?"
"In order," he chuckled, "I am in another dimension. Nothing went wrong on my end. Genesis is back in one piece, I'm fine dear and I was going to ask if you Tim and Raven would like to join me."
"I'm sure they would like to, I will ask the professor and Henchgirl to set something up."
"You know I could just come pick you up."
"There's no need. We will be fine."
The man flicked the lighter closed.
The man sighed before turning to the group.
"Okay, so we have established that I am now in an alternate dimension, let me introduce myself. I am Mr. Black, that's all you need to know, I actually am quite confused as to the nature of the rest of my information, currently I am on vacation, and ended up in your dimension quite by accident.
My wife Kara and my children will come here as soon as they can since they don't want to bother me.
Any questions?"
The man in the red and gold armour, looked at him and deadpanned, "we are in the middle of a war. The crazy guy in the green robes is in charge, we need to capture him and kill all of the weird things."
'Hmm, okay,'
Snatching up his scythe he got to work, jumping from craft to craft decapitating the many chitauri in his path, stopping for a second he blasted a mild pain hex at one of the chitauri.
Unknown to Joe the Chitauri were hive minded, and the pain hex caused all of the beasts to flinch. Far above him on the chitauri mothership, a single creature accidentally hit the wrong button.
"Self Destruct in 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2... 1…"
Back on earth the chitauri dropped like puppets with their strings cut. The large Leviathans without their alien pilots careened into the nearest buildings.
Loki was shocked by this change, and was caught by surprise by the blow that struck the back of his head.
Joe who had appeared out of thin air in a swirl of robes the end of his scythe scratched from the impact with the back of the horned helmet.
"Damnit"
With a flick of his wrist Joe conjured a length of rope that encircled the unconscious god of mischief.
Meeting with the four others he excused himself to attend to his own business.
As he left Loki awoke before suddenly spotting Mr Black, muttering in awe "Surtr" before squealing like a fangirl and fainting.
Looking at each other the patriot and virtuoso asked "Is that normal?"
"I have not seen him act like that." muttered the demigod before turning to his teammates, "Though this Surtr from what I remember of Loki's explanations is that he is an ancient sorcerer of some sort."
Back atop the roof of stark tower Joe had pulled out his Ankh, he quickly waved it around.
Immediately a mist covered skeleton rose from the floor.
"Hello, Harry, I am the Head Death for this dimension and the universes within."
"Ah, yes, I got pulled into this dimension by accident and wanted to know a few things about it. Is that okay with you?" he inquired
"I could use the time to do a few things, so in return for this, you take over as the head death for the next few days."
"No problem."
"Anyways, this dimension is quite odd in that there are several universes contained within, not including the realm of the dead and the realm of heaven and hell. You are on one of the most prominent, Earth-C6, currently the one with the most Essence.
You were apparently caught up in the dimensional wake of the destabilised wormhole the world had no wizards though all the people have the ability to channel magic and have the capability to become sorcerers, these people can use either ambient magic or channel the power of powerful magical beings.
There are also several humans that developed special powers due to genetic mutation, furthermore the universe is rife with life and there is a plethora of aliens.
On this planet there are three main groups, and a few extras, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men and the avengers. The main individuals outside these groups are a teenager going by spiderman, the sorcerer supreme - Stephen strange, Ghost rider and Daredevil.
There is also a group of Aliens from one of the major universes in this dimension, known as Asgardians, they are one of the main groups in a series of realms that visited earth a long time in the past and were revered as gods.
I will warn you, one of my subordinates has gone rouge and I cant pin her down long enough to strip her of her position, and she still has minor powers over death over a minor dead dimension, home of those nasty things you just killed along with a few other races and a being named Thanos.
That bastard is infatuated with my renegade subordinate and is practically the only thing anchoring her to existence. If you can, please kill him for me.
Finally I wish you a good day."
And with that she left, to do whatever female skeletons with time on their hands do.
Joe on the other hand let time pass before stepping about, he called the professor to talk about a replacement scythe
His current scythe is a simply yew handled scythe with a steel blade but had some rune for sharpness and the like powered off of ambient energy, but he wanted to get a new one.
The simplistic scythe is useful but he hopes to get a better one soon.
He wanders around, picking up several of the Chitauri weapons and sends them to Black island.
Slowly meandering, he picks up Loki's staff and walks over to the seven next to the helicopter pad.
"Hi!"