Note: I don't own anything in this story, I own myself and other OC's and it's a self insert story.
Chapter 3. Part 1
After getting back to the Watchtower, Superman, Batman, Iron-Man, Captain America and the other Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Nick Fury were eyeing Estevan, as he was sitting down on a chair with arms crossed and a scowl. They had all witnessed the carnage the young immortal had done, and none of them were entirely pleased with his actions. They were going to get some answers from him, and they weren't going to take 'no' for an answer.
Superman was the first to speak. " Estevan after what we had just witnessed down there, I have to ask you. Just what were you doing down there in the first place, and why did you kill Inter-gang, Metallo and Juggernaut?!" He asked him with a furious tone.
Estevan returned his glare at him. " What did it look like I was doing? I came down there to help, and to take care of those swine permanently!" " That doesn't give you the right to do that!" Batman shot out coming next to Superman. " Do you have any idea what your actions could've done, could've effected the people?" He said with his bat glare. Estevan was not intimidated by this. " So what? I did the right thing!"
"Does killing two criminals and a whole gang, justifies by doing the 'right thing?!'" John said slamming his fist on the table. Clearly he was angered by this man's methods, true he did his fare share of killing, but that was when he was a marine. A soldier, this man killed them without a shred of mercy. Wonder Woman had a somewhat disheartened look. " Estevan what we want to know is, why did you kill them?"
He looked at her with his blood red burning eyes. " I did so, cause if they were to be put back in their cages, it won't be enough!" He exclaimed with utter disgust.
" What do you mean 'won't be enough?' Everyone deserves a second chance, do some good for this world." Ant-Man told him, letting his compassionate side show.
Estevan glared at him and started laughing. This caught them off guard, he thinks their ways as a joke? " What's so damn funny?" Hulk asked.
" You." He said pointing at them. " You have all this power, and what exactly do you do with it?" " We use them to help people, protect them but never kill." Ms. Marvel replied. " Exactly! That is what I'm talking about, you don't kill! When you should put them, out of their misery!" He said with a growl. This made them dumbfounded, he was expecting them to kill? That's just crazy! " It' sounded like you were hoping we'd kill them." Tony said with a stern tone. " Well hate to tell ya pal, but we never kill!" " We only bring justice to them, no more no less." Tigra said.
Estevan growled and glared at them with utter animosity. " That's exactly my point!" He growled with his runes glowing. " Things like ' justice and morality' mean absolutely nothing to me! They are nothing more, but shields to protect these, animals from receiving their true judgment!" He exclaimed as the aura intensified.
They all stepped back from the sudden anger flare. Everyone could feel the heat it was giving of. " These animals, do not deserve a second chance, they do not deserve mercy or prison. They do not deserve to live! No, they deserve damnation, AND TO BURN IN THE FIRES OF HELL, FOR ETERNITY!" He shouted slamming his fist on the edge of the table, sending it flying.
The table crashed into a wall, they all stared at him as he started panting. " I lost my family to animals like them, I will not let other's suffer from your mistakes!" He growled. " And I could careless of what the people think! I stopped caring what they thought long ago."
They all just stood there in silence. Clearly they can see the signs of pain, anger and sadness in his bloody eyes, and the more they talked about it the more painful it got. Wonder Woman sat next to the troubled immortal and placed her hand on his shoulder. " Estevan. Just what kind of pain did you go through? We won't be able to help you if you don't tell us." She said in a motherly tone. He looked at her and then back at the others whose faces were slightly calm.
" You wish to know what I've been through? Why I'm this strong, and why I was able to survive in space? And why I kill without hesitation?" He asked them. They all nodded ready for hear his past. " Very well then." Then he stood up from his chair and went near a wall. " If you wish to know my past, allow me to show you, in visual aid." His hands started glowing, and with a few twirls he stretched his hands out and an aura sphere moved a the wall, and expanded into a sizable viewing screen. " Let me start at the beginning, when I was a little boy."
The aura screen turned dark then flashed into a memory laps. The screen then showed a large house, somewhere in a forest, and standing in front of the house was a family of nine. There were five men and four women, they were outside during a hot summer day playing under the sun.
" This is my house several years ago in the year 2004, my family and I were outside enjoying ourselves." Estevan explained. As the screen showed them a much younger version of the immortal at the age of ten years old, but unlike him his younger self was smiling and laughing as he tried catching a frog with a net. His parents were with his little sister, who was little more than six years old. His family were relaxing while his grandfather was barbecuing. " Awww, you look so cute!" Jen cooed as well as some of the woman.
Estevan only glared. " Yes well, we were very happy that time." He said with a small smile, seeing the memories of his lost childhood. Which turned into a frown. " But all that changed when they came." He sneered. Betty raised a brow. " They?"
The screen then showed them what happened. A crash was heard, and then ten armed men in black with guns came. They all had black ski masks, to the Avengers this was a robbery. The men had Estevan and his family cornered, with their guns aimed at them. They demanded that his family handed over what ever money or other objects worth of value to them. Then his father struck at the robber, then his uncles and grandfather fought back. They fought hard but then what the Avengers saw was truly horrible for them. The crooks fired at Estevan's father uncles and grandfather right in front of him.
" Oh my god." Susan said covering her mouth with her hand, as Reed placed his hand on her shoulder. " Such dishonorable cowards!" Hercules exclaimed. " I agree with you Herc. I agree." John said. He knew what it was like to lose those close to you.
But to make matters even worse, it wasent enough for them. Soon Estevan grabbed a large stick and tried to fend them off buying his mother, sister, grandmother and aunt some time to get away. But it wasn't enough. Two of the robbers grabbed him and held him down. Screams and shout were heard. Then two robber took aim and fired. They all stood in silence, as they had witnessed Estevan's mother, sister, aunt and grandmother gunned down right before his eyes. Now they all felt bad for him, but the one who felt even more so was Batman.
Batman and Estevan have so much in common, they both lost their parents at a young age. And witnessed their murders. Batman lowered his head remembering the pain he felt when he was a boy.
" After seeing my family killed before me, I then felt something. Something so violent, so wild and uncontrollable I had just snapped!" Estevan told them. As the screen showed them what happened next. As the men were laughing, they saw his younger self lower his head in despair. Then his head snapped up revealing a feral angry look. With a feral shout Estevan broke free of his captor's grasp, jumped on one of them and bit his neck very hard drawing blood. The heroes stood in awe and horror, as they witnessed Estevan taking his first life.
Then he took the man's gun and fired it at the other robber, then threw it at the another. He let out a angered shout, and charged at them like a mad beast out for blood. The robbers fired at him, but he dodged them even though he never had any form of training, his rage made him agile. The moment he got close Estevan jumped on one of them, reared his head back and delivered a head-butt hard enough to make the man recoil from the blow. After two head-butts they fell on the ground Estevan gouged the man's eyes, grabbed a large enough rock and smashed his head in. He dropped the stone, and slowly turn to face the seven remaining men.
The Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and Fury saw that his eyes, that were once brown were a hateful red color. And blood from one of the crook he bit into, was dripping from his mouth. He bared his blood covered teeth and let out a growl at them. His anger had changed him into a savage animal who could not control himself.
" It was this moment, that my powers began to change me." Estevan explained. " I didn't know how I got them or why they made me like that. But one thing was for certain though, I wanted nothing more than to kill those, filthy animals who took my family!"
Then the screen showed them his younger self attacking the robbers. His past self was running on all four like a rabid dog, he leaped at one of them and started chocking him. His comrade took aim at the young mad boy, Estevan saw this and used the robber as a shield. When the man killed his own teammate Estevan took out a knife from the dead man, charged at a inhuman speed and slit the man's throat. He then grabbed another knife from the man he killed, and started slaughtering the others. One by one they fell until one remain standing.
He stared at the younger boy in terror, as he saw the red gaze from the savage boy. He then decided to run away rather than fight, but the blood crazed boy wouldn't have any of that. He began to chase after his prey. The terrified man ran into the boy's forest in sheer fright, he would often turn and shoot at him in hopes of loosing him.
The whole group of heroes saw him stop in the middle of the forest panting and shaking looking frantically everywhere. Widow then turn to Estevan and asked. " How come you were chasing him? Shouldn't you have let him go?" They to wondered the same thing.
" Did you really think, I would let any of them go without being punished?" He questioned. " That still didn't gave you any right to do that! You were only a child for god's sake!" Blue Beetle exclaimed. The immortal turned his bloody gaze at him.
" Don't you dare talk to me about rights, you gutless hypocrite!" Estevan snapped at him. "Those bastards needed to pay for what they did, I had every single right, to end them! I would not let them rot in jail, when they should be rotting away in Hell where all scum like them. Deserves to suffer."
Then the screen showed them Estevan ambushing the man by jumping on him and stuck both knives in the man's neck. His younger self glared hatefully at him as tears flowed from his eyes. The man choking on the blades from both sides, slowly stretched his bloodied hand on the boy's head. And with his final breath he muttered one word:
" I...I'm sorry kid."
With that he dragged his hand over the boy's face leaving blood flowing over his eyes. With a feral roar Estevan pulled with all of his strength and ripped the man's head of with the knives. Blood sprayed from the body as it fell down, Estevan was panting from his anger fit. The blood leaving his face, as he stared at the site before him. They can see it in his face and eyes. The sheer horror and shock at what he had done.
Then Estevan ran back to his house and went over the body of his dead mother. He fell on his knees as tears flowing even more from his eyes. His pained sobs could be heard from the heroes, as they felt the pain of his sadness. They saw him lowering his head on his mother's bosom crying over and over.
" It was from this day, my worst fear became a realty." He said catching their attention. " My fear was failing to save and protect my family, and now it had happened." He said with a pained tone.
They watched as his younger self let out a pained wail which can be heard in the air. His wails were like daggers, piercing the hearts of the heroes, as some of them had tears falling from their eyes and some lowering their heads in sorrow and respect.
" And then something happened after that." He told them. " What happened?" Shazam asked. Instead of answering the question, Estevan waved his hand and the screen's surface rippled. Then the heroes heard a siren, an air raid siren. They saw his younger self looked at the sky and saw jet fighters flying over his house. Then what they saw truly stunned them, as they saw a small missile flying over his home in the distance. Then suddenly the missile hit whatever it's target was, and a flash of light was seen. Then a large explosion was heard. A large mushroom shaped cloud was seen then waves of the explosion were spreading everywhere, and it was heading for Estevan's land.
The heroes knew what it was, it was a nuclear warhead, and someone had launched it near the immortal's home. They saw him glare at the intense light, as the explosion hit him and destroyed his home. The heroes watched as flash of light erupted from the screen. They all were horrified, they had witnessed his family getting killed, and now saw him in the middle of a nuclear explosion. But the question is, if the blast radius got him, how is he still standing right in front of them?
" Wha...what happened?!" Storm asked. Estevan gave a harden look. " World War 3. Had arrived in my earth." He simply said.
They all paled at this. World War 3, the one thing S.H.I.E.L.E.D, the heroes and the whole planet were hoping would never happen, had happen in Estevan's world. " You mean to tell me, that your earth was going into a third world war? Just what the hell started it in the first place?!" Fury demanded since he and his organization were created to prevent it from happening in their earth that is.
" You'll know. Soon enough." He said. Then the screen was blurry, since Estevan's past self was knocked from the blast. Then they heard voices.
" Anything soldier?"
" Nothing here sir."
They were hearing voices that belonged to soliders, searching where his home was. Then they heard him make a grunting noise, hoping to get they're attention. Fortunately it did. They hear rapid foot steps nearing him. They saw through his blurred vision as the man was checking for a pulse.
" Sir! We got a survivor!"
The search party hurried and saw him. " Christ! Your telling me he's still alive?!" The heroes heard one of them exclaimed. " It doesn't matter, right now we need to get him out of here, and back to HQ for treatment, understood?" They heard the leader barked orders.
" SIR, YES SIR!" The troops hollered. They saw them putting Estevan on a stretcher and were about to leave when. " Wa...wait." He weakly muttered at the men, making them stop. The leader came up and place his hand on his shoulder. " Easy kid, your going to be alright." " No."
This confused them, why would he say 'no?' " My...my locket. Give me, my locket." With that Estevan passed out from the pain. One of the soldiers looked down and saw a heart shaped locket, he bent down and grabbed it. With everything secured they got in a striker and took off, as the sound of gun fire and explosions were heard.
" The moment I woken up, I found myself in a rebel headquarters." Estevan explained. " The leader, Anton Mercer, had told me that the united nations building, had risen a new flag. And guess what it was." Then the screen rippled again showing them the UN building, and what they saw had shocked them. A red flag with a white center, along with a very familiar swastika symbol. And at the front of the building was a man in black military suit, along with the symbol on hit hat and arm band. He raised his right hand along with an army of soldiers in front of him.
" You mean to tell us, that the Nazi's started world war 3?!" Superman asked in total disbelief. Estevan scowled and nodded. " But how is that possible? I mean if our worlds are similar, then your government should've prevented it from happening!" Fury retorted. " Believe me Nick, even I was shocked as you are, but there was a reason why they started it." He told them. " And why was that bub?" Logan asked.
Estevan scowled even deeper and glared at Fury. " Because they had the world leaders, pentagon, feds and the CIA eating out of their hands." This confused them all, how could the military and government of his world submit to the Nazis?
" How can that be possible? Surely the government would rather die than join them." Cap said. Estevan wasn't swayed by this. " That's because Cap, they had been corrupted!" Estevan snarled. The way he said it, made the air feel very thick. " My world's government had Nazi moles within their ranks, and soon everyone in any military organization had turned over to the Nazis, and became our enemy!"
" Than that explains why you've been so hostile to Fury, because he is from S.H.I.E.L.D... And S.H.I.E.L.D is a military group!" Falcon exclaimed.
" Exactly! Since then I've hated any form of government, I had sworn to wipe out all of military officials, and politics!" Estevan growled with utter anger. Everyone took a few steps back, as his aura was seen again. Out of all of them Nick Fury, had lowered his head, knowing full well that everyone, not even the military are above corruption. Widow then asked. " Then what happened?"
" After finding out that the Neo-Nazis had started the war, I wanted to be a part of the rebellion!" Before anyone could speak, the screen rippled again showing an eager younger Estevan asking his savior to join them. After many arguments they decided to let him in, and made him the youngest trainee in the republic army of World War 3! Everyone decided to be silent, and watch as the screen showed them Estevan's hellish training, time after time despite all the hardships from the training courses, Estevan had found a family amongst the soldiers. They all had treated him like a little brother, since they watched out for him throughout the war. The screen then showed the heroes the boy's first assignment in the battle field, they're goal was to infiltrate a Nazi command base, get vital information and kill any Nazi present. They saw him within a helicopter amongst his fellow soldiers, with a look of determination and rifle in hand.
Soon they reached their destination, and fought they're way through the Nazi army. The heroes were in awe as they witnessed the young boy, killed many Nazi solider, and helped his men get out of the base alive! Many of them were impressed by his feats, most of which was Nick Fury who was even more impressed, that a 10 year old boy became a harden soldier. The same could be said for Captain America, for he knew what it was like to fight with all his might and heart, to protect his men by any means necessary. " Gotta give the boy credit, had he been a part of my team, we would've easily stopped HDRA and won the war!"
Then the screen showed them the years went by, and Estevan was 13 year's old, what stunned them even more he was promoted to the rank of captain at that age. His next mission was to lead a small group to capture a Nazi corporal who was brining in a large supply of weapons, as well as slaves to work in they're mines and forge more weapons for them. They were to bring him back so they can interrogate him for valuable information, regarding on they're next attack.
The screen then switched to Estevan and his small team were inside the building, only to be ambushed by the enemy. They fought with all their might, but they were completely outnumbered, and one by one Estevan's team were killed. The a grenade was thrown next to the young captain, and it exploded sending him crashing into a wall. Beaten and bloodied Estevan looked up, and saw a woman who he considered as his older sister. She was badly wounded as her right leg was torn to shreds, she looked at the Nazis who were infront of her, one of them pointing a gun at her. She looked at him with tears in her eyes, she let out a small smile, and with her last breath she said her final words.
" I love you, little brother."
With that they fired at her multiple times. The heroes were horrified at this, Estevan had lost his men the same way he lost his parents. They watched his past self lower his head, and his body began to tremble. From what they could hear, they heard a small giggle coming from him. This confused them greatly, why was he giggle about, and in a time like that?
Then they saw him lunged at a Nazi soldier who's back was turned at him. They saw him going berserk again as he used his teeth, to tear into the back of the screaming German soldier. " It was then my powers started to change me again, whenever something tragic has happened, my powers awaken but I had no control over myself at those times." Estevan explained once more.
They saw him getting up slowly as he hunched over, his arms hanging loosely as he swayed back and forth. When he raised his head up quickly, what they saw completely disturbed them. They saw his eyes a blood red, and his lips were in a twisted and sadistic smile. From what they can see, they saw nothing but the look of insanity and madness. Even his eyes had it too. They heard maddened giggles escaping from him, as his twisted gaze were fixed on his next prey. This gravely disturbed everyone who was watching this, they have dealt with mad men before, but Batman dealt with psychopaths, maniacs, insane criminals and crazed killers before. This was nothing new to him.
Then they heard his giggles erupted into insane laughter, as it echoed through the dark corridors. The Nazi soldiers fired at the crazed teen, who then jumped out of the line of fire and onto the ceiling. What freaked them out, was him crawling on all fours while upside down over his prey, laughing as he avoided the bullets. " This is crazy! Just what kind of power, could change him so quickly?!" Spider-man was disturbed that seeing the immortal's past self crawling on the walls and ceilings. Like how he would when facing criminals.
They watched as he jumped from wall to wall, and then onto one of the soldiers who screamed and fired at him. The crazed teen cackled with insanity as he landed on the soldier, and began to tear into him with his bare hands. Wonder Woman was horrified as she watched the young boy, howling with laughter as he gutted the man like a pig. She looked at the immortal, who had he head lowered. Obviously it was painful for him to see the animal he had become. " Now I understand why he is like this, the tragedy of his family and friends, had turned him into this. Oh Hera above have mercy on him."
Then they saw him attacked the rest of the soldier killing them in to most horrific ways. Some of the heroes had vomited from the gory scene, while others had turned away from the carnage. There were six soldiers left now, as they saw the boy turned his crazed stare at his next prey. The soldiers were terrified, this young man had wiped out their whole group. They saw him coming ever so closer to them giggling like a mad man. One of them took out his pistol and fired at him point-blank range in the head. The recoil of the gun made him lean back which his should be on the ground, but he was still standing albeit bent back.
The heroes then heard him bursting with insane laughter, which made them dumbfounded. How could he have survived a bullet to the head. Then he fixed himself and gazed at the Nazis. Blood was leaking from the wound on his head, as the bullet fell off. Then he started to wobble like a drunken man. " Hahahaha, it's all just so funny ya know? Hehehehe hahaha!" He ranted at them scaring them further.
" All the pain and death of others, hehehehehe, it's all just so fucking hilarious! I can assure you my children." He moved slowly making them grip they're weapons tighter. " I will make your suffering slow and painful." He smiled so big it would've torn his head in two. " It will be a sweet and beautiful...DEATH!" That did it for them, the Nazi soldiers ran for their lives as a crazed teenaged captain gave chase, howling with insane laughter.
The heroes watched in horror as the young boy chased them, like a demon who escaped from hell. Jumping on the walls and ceilings as the soldiers fired at him. One of them threw a flash-bang grenade which exploded in the crazed teen's face. They stopped as the smoke began to fill the hallway. Thinking they were safe, they let out a sigh of relief. That was until they heard foot steps and giggling again. Their blood was ice cold when they saw his shadowed form in the smoke. As he came through his face was darkened but they can see two blood red eyes, and his grinning teeth which had eight canine fangs, four at the top and four at the bottom. Hawkgirl watched the young boy stuck his tongue out and slowly licking his fangs like a predator. " My god! I can't believe he did all that, he really takes losses seriously when it involves his friends. I hope we can find a way to help him."
The Nazis fired at the mad captain, he dodged them and made his way to the first one. When he got close, the soldier pointed his gun at him but Estevan side-stepped and with inhuman strength and speed. He sliced the man's hand off from the wrist. The man screamed in pain, but was silenced when Estevan swiped at his lower jaw. Tearing it and his throat completely off. His gurgled screams were heard as Estevan tackled him and started tearing him apart. The rest of the soldiers ran as fast as they could, Estevan took noticed and gave chase once more.
Susan was very pale at the blood shed. She saw the immortal lower his head even further, she knew he was ashamed of himself when he became, an insane savage animal, more savage than Wolverine. Tears started flowing from her eyes knowing the pain of what transpired in his life. " Dear god almighty! No wonder why he said all that about justice and morality, those men took those he held very dear to him, and now turned him into this." She put her head on her husband's shoulder, who try to comfort her from the carnage.
The surviving Nazis soon found themselves in a room which was a dead end. They turn to leave through the door, only to see the insane captain blocking them. They were shaking uncontrollably when Estevan slowly closed the door, locking it, reaching for the light switch and turned off the lights, leaving only his glowing blood red eyes. The only thing the heroes heard were screams of terror, pain and sounds of flesh and blood being spilt.
" After killing the ones who took my men, I made my way to the target and decided to finish the mission." Estevan told them, as the screen rippled again. Revealing a very nervous and scared Nazi corporal, sweat was seen on him and his breathing was erratic. He ordered his men to sand guard as the young captain, made his way through out the base. He then heard a riot out of the room he was in, he heard gunfire, explosions and screams, as his men were getting slaughtered. He went for the door and looked through the small window, he saw flashes from guns, shadowed blurs moving and then blood was covering the glass. He backed away from the door, when it was knocked out of it's hinges.
There stood Estevan covered in blood, grinning like a mad man and holding a dead soldier by the neck. He dropped the body and went for his next prey. The corporal tried to fight back, but it was useless. Estevan started beating him and tossing him around the room like a broken toy. He grabbed the German by the scruff of his uniform and was about to kill him, but he felt hesitant. The heroes saw this, he knew that he had to stop this madness and regain control. Fortunately he did, he simply slammed his head on the German knocking him out. He let the man go and took few steps back. His back meet the wall next to the door, he sunk lower as he saw all the devastation he caused. His breathing was hard and shallowed, sweat and blood dripped from his face, as he buried it in his hands, muffled sobs could be heard. He was shedding tears of his lost brothers and sisters, who supported him throughout the years. Then the radio he had began to make static sounds, as voices were heard.
" Red Crown, this is Checkmate, how copy?"
It was Anton! He was calling to see if the mission was a success.
" Repeat, Red Crown, this Checkmate how copy?"
Estevan grabbed his radio and switched it on.
" Checkmate sir." He answered. " Red Crown did you acquired the target over? " Anton asked.
" Yes sir. I found Lieutenant Schneider and have chained him. Ready for pick up, I will be lazing over." The radio staticed for a few seconds until Anton spoke once more.
" Copy that, I'll send reinforcements to pick you up, ETA four minutes." Estevan was silent still feeling the guilt of failing to save his men. " Sir... Anton I lost my squad during the process. Over." The radio was quiet for a second, then Anton spoke. " What happened?" " We were ambushed sir, I barely made it out. But my squad...they didn't make it sir."
Anton was silent from the sudden news, he knew Estevan and his group were brothers and sisters in each other's eyes, they watched each other's backs and always made it out of tight situations. " Copy that son. Cottonmouth this is Checkmate, need emergency medevac. Six soldiers down, one still alive." " Rodger that Checkmate, medevac inbound. ETA two minutes."
" Just hang in there son, we'll bring you home." With that the radio went off and all Estevan could do is wait for help to arrive. " After they came and took me and the Lieutenant back to base, I gave my full report to Anton." Estevan explained. The screen showed them the young captain standing full attention in front of Anton Mercer. " At first when I told him about what happened, I wasn't so sure if I deserved to continue the fight. But he reminded me, that in war expect casualties. Even among your ranks. He also told me that, they were willing to fight and die along side me, and that I shouldn't let their deaths be in vain!" Estevan told them with a determined look.
" You must really looked up to Anton, and respected him didn't you?" Captain America asked. Estevan nodded. " Yes. He was my father figure, he tought me everything I needed to know. And everything else in between.'
Then the screen rippled again, showing them Estevan at age 15. Who had been ranked to Commander. The heroes saw him go through many missions, and all were successful ones and there was no loss of soldiers on his part. Then the screen rippled showing them his father figure Anton lying down on a bed, with monitor connected to him. " If I may ask thee a question Estevan." Thor said catching the immortal's attention.
" Yes Thor?"
" What is the matter with your friend Anton? Is he ill or something?" The thunder god asked him. Estevan closed his eyes and lowered his head in sorrow. " As a matter of fact Thor, he's dying." This caught them off guard. Anton Mercer, the one who took the young man in as a child, was dying? " How is he dying exactly?" Panther asked. " He had a bad case of heart cancer, for years he's been fighting to stay alive from his sickness. The doctors in the rebellion treated him as best they could." He said with a saddened tone. The heroes lowered their heads, knowing full well that some cancer treatments are curable but not very often and the heart cancer is the worst one they can think of. " The doctors only gave him a month to live, it was then his time was almost over." The immortal said.
The screen rippled again showing them a teary eyed Estevan next to Anton, holding his hand. The doctor had his stethoscope on the general's chest, hearing his shallowed breathing. His heartbeat was fading fast. Regretfully, the doctor sighed and removed the stethoscope. Putting it away in his bag.
" Well doctor, is there anything you can do?" Estevan asked him desperately hoping he can save his father figure. The doctor looked at the boy sadly and shook his head.
" I'm sorry son, it's not good. We've done everything we can to help him, his heart rate is decreasing, his breathing his becoming shallow. And he's suffering from internal bleeding." He said in a somber tone. Estevan's eyes widen at the sudden news. " I'm sorry son. There's nothing more we can do." With that the doctor left them alone to share their few minutes. Estevan couldn't stop the flowing tears from his eyes. When he was 10 he lost his whole family, when he was 13 and a captain he lost his squadron who he sees as brothers and sister. And now he's losing the only man he ever called father.
With some strength left, Anton turned to the young commander. " Do not grieve for me son, I've had a good life before the war. And meeting you, was probably the best thing that could ever happen for me." Estevan looked up teary eyed. " Sir?"
" Ugh, Estevan it is up to you now. You must take over for me, and led us to victory." Estevan was shocked, Anton Mercer was going to make him a general! " But, Anton I'm... I'm just a commander, how can I lead an entire army? I'm not even sure if I'm worthy." This touched the hearts of the heroes, even though he was young he was honest. " Hehehe, nor was I son. But I know for a fact that you have a great leadership, you look after your own. Even though the situation looks grim, you still take care of your men." Anton then reached over and grabbed a badge from a desk near his bed, and brought it to the young commander. " Take it, Estevan. Lead us to victory... lead us to freedom." Estevan then grabbed the dying man's hand which held the badge, his hands trembling as tears flowed like rivers. " I am proud to have called you... son." With that he closed his eyes, and let out a deep breath. A small smile was on his face, as his pulse had flat-lined.
The heroes lowered their heads in respect, for a great man who took care of the immortal in his youth. Some of them shed tears from this scene as the young boy before them sobbed silently. Estevan then wiped his tears away, and made it out of the room. There stood before him were the rest of the rebel soldiers, all stood at attention and saluted to their new general.
" Sir! What are your orders sir?" One of the soldier questioned. Estevan looked at them, then at his badge. With a look of determination he placed the badge on his shirt, and gazed at his men. " We finish what Anton Mercer wanted. We will reclaim our homes, we will bring freedom! We will unit against this tyranny, AND WE WILL WIN THIS WAR!" With that the soldiers all shouted as their fight for freedom and peace still continued.
" After I became general, I had been leading my army, against the Nazis. Under my guidance we were stronger than before, we had brought down many Nazis, and we had fought to the year 2014. The year when world war 3 had ended." Estevan spoke. The screen rippled again showing the heroes what had been going on in the five years of war. And like the immortal said, it is the year 2014 on his world. And the war would soon be over.
The viewing screen showed them his past self in his twenties, the same age they assume he is in their presence. It showed them a hard and intense battle between the rebels and the Neo Nazis, friend and foe fell by the numbers, but the republic continued to press on. They soon reached the main base of the Neo Nazis, which happens to be the corrupted UN building. Then before they could counter attack, the republic had used tanks and fired at the forsaken building, killing all of the Nazis and the corrupted world leaders all in one strike. The building was crumbling down, smoke and debris was seen, the republic let out loud cheers of joy. Estevan was smiling at his men, he had done it. He had brought everyone together, and brought them to victory. He had helped win world war 3.
" I gotta say kid, I've seen my far share of action before. But I never thought that you would actually bring down those Nazi bastards in your world ." Fury said with a smile. Everyone else agreed to the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. " He's right son. Had you been born into our world and in my time, I would've gladly fought along side you." Captain America said feeling proud at the immortal. Seeing the smiles on their faces, Estevan felt a familiar sense of feeling like he was with his family again. Despite that, he lowered his head with a scowl. This didn't go unnoticed by Black Canary. " Are you alright Estevan?" She asked.
Estevan shook his head. " No. I'm not alright." Everyone was confused by this. " Even though I helped win world war 3, the real war was only the beginning."
Xavier then felt realization hit him. " Your referring to the Demon Wars, aren't you?" Estevan's scowl only deepened by the name. " Yes, it was worse a lot worse than world war 3 could ever be." " How worse could it be?" The dark knight asked him.
Instead of answering him, he pointed at the screen silently asking them to continue watching. The screen then showed them a horrible earthquake in his world, the earth had shook worse than anyone could ever imagine. Then the ground began to crack, everyone had moved out of the way as fire soon spewed out from the crack as it grew wider. By then the earthquake had stopped, and the fire died out leaving smoke coming from the hole. The young general watched his men approach the hole with caution, not knowing what will happen.
Then all of a sudden the heroes then heard, a loud ungodly shriek coming from the ground. It sounded so inhuman, so horrible it sent chills down their spines, even Batman felt a little intimidated from the unholy noise. The screen showed them the republic had to cover their ears from the horrid noises. Then suddenly it all stopped. One of the soldiers inched closer to the hole till he was at the edge. He saw nothing but darkness in the hole, releasing as sigh of relief he turned to his friends and shrugged his shoulders. But before he or anyone else knew it, something came out of the hole, a clawed tentacle was seen as it skewered the soldier from the back.
Some of the republic soldiers let out screams as they watched, helplessly as the tentacle dragged the man down to the hole. They then heard screams of fear and pain, as they heard the sound of flesh being torn apart. Then all was real quiet, everyone had readied their weapons incase if the creature attacked again. Estevan watched along with his soldiers, not knowing what had happened. Then all of a sudden something came out of the hole and flew into the air catching everyone by surprise. From what the heroes could see, the creature was about the size of a ford focus, it had pale skin, bat-like wings with tears in them. It also had tentacles, clawed tentacles like the one that killed that one soldier. They also saw it's head had no eyes and in it's mouth, was the soldier it killed.
Gazing down at the humans, the creature then flung it's dead prey at them and let out an unholy cry into the sky. " It was from that day, Hell had been unleashed." The immortal said.
And true to his word, the screen showed them that more flying creatures had flew from the ground flying around the sky. Letting out horrible shrills and cries into the air. Then the ground shook again but this time, the ground was rising up and something bursted through it with such inhuman strength. A large creature had crawled from the hole it made, it's skin was a infernal red color, it had two huge hands with massive boney claws chained on it's wrists. It had two huge spikes facing backwards on it's hunched back, it had chains hanging loosely on it's body. It had armor covering it from the waist down. Two horns were on each side of it's face and it had horrid soulless yellow eyes that seemed to be blazing like fire. It was much larger, large than the Hulk. The beast let out a huge roar which sounded like a exploding volcano.
Then more of those horrid beast crawled out from various holes through out the land, each one more horrifying and uglier than the last. Then the rebels and any surviving Nazi opened fired at the monsters, who charged at them. No matter how much ammo they used, their weapons didn't seem to slow any of them down. As the monsters got closer, they started to slaughter all of them. Men and women were either crushed, slashed, stabbed or devoured as the monsters killed everyone in their sights.
Superman and the other heroes all lost their color as the screen showed them a horror far beyond any of them have witnessed. " HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! WHAT IS ALL THAT?!" Tygra exclaimed as she saw one man getting grabbed by one of the creatures, and then bit his whole body off from the waist. " This is what made me what I am today. What you all are seeing, demons, real demons, who had rising from the depths of Hell. Our victory over world war 3 was the right moment they were waiting for. To catch all of humanity off guard. TO STRIKE!" Estevan snarled.
The screen then showed them his past self, standing there in absolute terror, as his army, his family was getting killed. They weren't the only ones, civilians who were still there, were also getting slaughtered. Everything around him was being taken away from him again! Then the sound of the hulking demon was heard again, snapping him out of his trance. He saw it charging at him like a bull. Anger, intense anger was filling every fiber of his body, gritting his teeth Estevan's face twisted in a angry sneer and let out a war cry, as he charged for the demon as will firing his machine gun at the beast.
As they drew closer, the demon slammed it's huge claw downwards, but Estevan dodged it's attack and jumped on it's arm and started firing at it's face. Yelling in anger at the beast for killing his family, the demon roared as it swiped at him, only for him to jump on it's back and continued firing. The demon bucked around trying to remove the pest on it's back. Reaching over the dreg of Hell grabbed the general and slammed him on the ground. Estevan was in serious pain from the demon slamming him on the ground. Then the demon brought him back up, and delivered a powerful backhand sending the young general flying into a ruined wall.
The heroes were horrified as they saw him couch out huge amounts of blood. They saw him on all fours trying to get back up, none of them even knew how he survived a serious blow like that. " Gott im himmel." NightCrawler muttered as he crossed himself. Never once had he seen such horror before, being a Christian he knew the kind of terrible things those demons were capable of.
Batman for once felt a small amount of fear, he had never seen this kind of slaughter before. Never once did his enemies massacred an entire city before. And now he was witnessing that kind of horror.
Johnny and Peter had to hold their mouths, cause they were about to vomit from the gory site. Hawkgirl was shedding tears as she witnessed a demon hound pouncing on a mother and her children as it was tearing them apart. " Oh my god! How can such creatures like these be so cruel and heartless."
The wives in the audience had turned to their lovers for comfort, they couldn't watch anymore. The couldn't stand the site of innocent men, women and children getting killed, while some of the heroes glared hatefully at the demons. The screen showed them the young general slowly getting up, then he saw that he was surrounded by the horrid beasts. But what horrified him is that they were holding the dead bodies of his fallen army, in their teeth, claws and horns. Some of them even had their terrified faces facing him from their mouths. The demons were taunting him, showing him his now dead family and laughing at his failure. Now pure intense rage, anger and hatred within him had skyrocketed as he snarled at them gripping a knife he pulled from it's sheath. Glaring hatefully at them.
" God damn you all! GOD DAMN YOU ALLLLL!" He roared as he charged at the armies of Hell. The heroes watched as he jumped over a hell hound, used it as a spring board, leaping on a horned demon and sank his knife in it's head. The demon howled as blood sprayed everywhere. Jumping from the demon Estevan landed on another one and repeated the same tactic. Landing on the ground Estevan pulled a grenade and threw it in the mouth of with an upside down face. Exploding inside it's mouth. A hell hound tried to pounce on the general, only for him to side-step and sank his blade in it's throat. No matter how hard he fought, each demon would not simply die so easily.
Then his eyes became blood red once more, as the mysterious power was awakening with every moment. With his power showing Estevan ran to the nearest demon, grabbed it's head and twisted it violently breaking it's neck. Then a winged demon flew by and tried to bite the young man, but Estevan jumped over it, and stabbed his knife in it's back. They were son in the air as the demon tried it's best to get the human off. Estevan then grabbed it's wing and snapped it like a twig. The demon cried as it started to fall from the sky, the empowered general then jumped from the falling beast, landing on another and delivered a powerful axe kick sending it crashing down.
As they watched the Hulk was impressed by this man's strength. Even though he considered himself the strongest on his world, he began to wonder how well this man would do in a fist fight with him.
" Odin's beard! I've seen my fair share of battles against armies of demons, but they are nothing compared to this madness." Thor spoke with such awe, as he witnessed the immortal's past self land on a four legged demon, grabbed it's spike and pulled with all his might. Soon the chest cavity exploded in a bloody shower.
Landing in a circle of demons, one demon with dark brown skin, spikes on it's back and a long nose. Grabbed him by the waist, But Estevan punched it's head causing it to release as it's head caved in. Then a pale demon with a skeletal like face, with thin tendrils on it's head tried to stab him with it's blade like arm, only for the empowered general to grab it and ripped it from it's socket. Then like what he did to Juggernaut he used it's arm like a bat, swinging his left arm over and over on the demon's head. Then using the sharp end of the arm Estevan jammed it into it's head.
The heroes watched the young man killing the dregs of Hell left and right, which explains why he killed Metallo and Juggernaut. To him anyone or anything, man or demon were enemies in his eyes. That's why he said all those things about justice and morality. Soon the screen showed them that, the earth was shaking again only much fiercer. The ground exploded and fire was shooting up in the sky. Estevan stopped attacking and turned his sights at the flame. Even the demons stopped and gazed upon the flames. They then began to mutter and speak in their unholy language, to the heroes none of them could understand it but Estevan could.
" He comes...!"
" The dark one has arrived!"
" Let the heavens tremble with fear!"
" And shroud the world into absolute darkness and despair!"
" Wha...what is happening? What are they talking about?" Wasp asked. Estevan's scowl deepened even more of what was about to come. " They speak of their master's coming. The one who unleashed Hell on my world, and started the Demon Wars."
The screen showed them a massive pillar was coming from the ground, and on it and shadowed figure was seen rising with the pillar as the fires around it grew even more. The demons roared, howled and wailed, throwing their arms in the air as the pillar stopped. The heroes then saw the shadowed figure reveal itself. Standing above the demon horde was a tall being, it looked like a man in his twenties, but it's skin was a greyish pale color, his body was lean and built. Black matter was covering his fore arms, and his waist all the way to his feet. Leaving his upper body exposed. His tail was black with a blade like tip, on his head was a boney like crown on his forehead. His hair was combed back with yellow tips. And his eyes was a color of black and yellow.
" Who...who is that?" Iron-Man asked. An angry look was seen on the immortal's face, as he glared at the demon in the screen. " That everyone, is the bastard responsible for bringing those demons on earth, the one who killed every man, woman and child. The one who turn my earth into a hellish place and destroyed it! This ladies and gentlemen is my most hated enemy. His name is Zodd, prince of Hell. Son of the devil himself. Lucifer!"
Everyone was completely shocked by this news. The demon on the screen, was the one who J'onn, Xavier, Jean and Emma saw within Estevan's mind destroyed his world. None of them even thought that this monster is the son of the devil. The screen showed them crossing his arms, gazing down his subject and smiled a sadistic and demonic grin as fires blazed behind him. This was the beginning the beginning of Hell on earth!
To be continued.
Sorry it took so long, but I've decided to make this a two part chapter. So here's part 1 and don't fret part 2 will be made soon.