Elsewhere in a place of energy without matter, she spoke. "Lilith; awaken."


The silver-skinned being known to the Wardens as Eden studied the intruder. The very familiar, golden form of Zion stands at her side, ready for battle.

"Wardens! I believe this is an assassin from the Shepherds of Asia!" the Entity said even as she lashed out with the full power of her nullifying beam. Her confidence shattered as the silver ray dissipated like nothing. [Interloper?]

"Wait! I'm not even from this world!" Advent shouted as she started to build up power for fighting two entities at the same time. Luckily they were still mostly limited with their shards scattered.

"She is a danger!" Zion shouted as he fired his own, much more powerful, nullifier beam. The gold beam again spattered over her to no visible effect. [Alarm!]

The heroes charged at her, only to be surprised as she disappeared from before them. Advent grabbed Eden by the arm.

"Too late," the silver woman said, then blinked away.

Advent blinked as she realized that Eden had her avatar flee to a far off dimension. Her danger sense then flared as it informed her that all of these not quite so familiar heroes and all of Washington D.C. were about to be obliterated.

The new beam from Zion shot out at her even as she grabbed it with her hands and massively amplified psychokinesis. "Are you nuts? You nearly vaporized the city!" she shouted as she absorbed the power.

Arsenal leveled his spear at her. "She's not lying."

[Control?] Zion shot a different golden beam that put solid and liquid matter into a new, low energy state that life could not exist within. It seemed to do nothing to the interloper.

[Accepted]

Alarms blared to life as the screen in the background flickered to show twenty figured outside the tinkertech tower the Wardens operated out of.

[Attack] Zion ordered as he fired several beams from his hands.

All of the attacks slammed home into the empty building. The Warden's Tower ceased to exist as organized matter. Even the heated, acid melted transfigured matter simply turned to exotic energy.

The not-Chevalier felt his heart constrict as he realized they were outside their base with every single Warden and soldiers that supported them. "Well, we found who created them." The Miracles were behind the weapons?

Advent's danger sense still showed four of the Conflict Engines as extreme threats. She felt her hyperspace tap empowerment reach full power. A streak of light stabbed through the four targeted monsters and then stopped in front of Zion with the cores floating in front of her. Exotic quantum decay shattered the four cores and infected their Earth's with billions of years of matter degeneration.

In the hyperfast acceleration state, only Advent and Zion moved as streaks of light that blasted each other.


Doctor Mother looked up from her paperwork at her desk in her office. Her eyes widened at the sight of the silver woman before her. "Eden."

The figure emoted amusement across her face as they appeared at the center of the garden of flesh.

"You can't be her! I killed you!" the older woman shouted as Eden surveyed the mess here.

So similar, but with such a different end result. Eden materialized the exact knife that Doctor Mother had attempted to murder her with. And slammed it into the back of the woman's head with telekinesis, cutting all but autonomous life support control. The body collapsed onto its side as if falling into the first aid rescue position. She felt the shift as someone used this universe's version of her most basic power to shift from this impossible quantum Earth-Bet.

"Door," she called out as she salvaged the primacy shards of her comatose self.

Alexandria stepped through as she started to put her helmet on as the last pieces of her costume. And then stopped at the destination and Entity before her. Legend zipped in through a second portal, with Eidolon only a moment behind them as he pulled on his cape.

Alexandria minced no words. "Attack!"

Those would, unfortunately, not be her last words.


The Endbringer alarms sounded loud and mournfully across Brockton Bay as the Simurgh lifted a building to block the heroes and villains. Streams of electronics parts flowed up from the buildings in the area and started to assemble into something... new.

"Priority is the device she's building," Armsmaster shouted as he sidestepped and spun out of the way of beam of energy from the Resurgence armor.

Tattletale studied the two armors as she ignored a blast from Everyman. "Those are not heroes, but drone armors that do not have any pilots in them. You can go all out against them."

A figure in white dashed from cover to cover. "Just drones, she says. Like that helps us peon heroes any," Clockblocker complained. The time frozen car in front of him ignored a blast of heat that melted the asphalt on the far side from him.

"Says the only Ward that is being effective. Fucker," Shadow Stalker called out as she ducked through another wall.

Regent skidded to a stop next to Clockblocker. "Um, bossman? I think it's time. If this doesn't qualify as fucked up beyond all recognition-?"

"Please tell me you have a secret plan to teleport Advent back here?" the clock-themed hero asked.

"I so wish," the Canadian ex-villain replied.

"Tats?" Grue called out as he spread his darkness around to block energy attacks.

"Yeah, way past time for holding back. This could be the end of the world," Tattletale said as she stepped fearlessly (and tried to hide her shaking knees) and intercepted another blast from Everyman at Panacea as she tried to heal the three inch hole through Miss Militia. "Priority it is."

A massive wave of psyker energy erupted from Tattletale as she atomized the cloud of electronics with her pyrokinesis.

"Since when can she do that?" Assault complained. "Because that doesn't look like a Thinker 5 or 6. I'm just saying." He landed and then shot sideways to dodge tons of debris landing on his head.

"There." Panacea helped the groggy Miss Militia to her feet. "Glory Girl, we could use some cover."

"You got it!" the flyer shouted as she flew forward as fast as a rocket and ignored the building's boiler and shot forward to slow down near The Simurgh. "Why can't I hear her scream?" She winced as her aura took a big hit from Resurgence. Thank you Advent for the upgrade. She took a swing at the Endbringer, only to miss by mere inches.

Vista kept back as she used her power to let people dodge attacks or get close. Panacea appeared next to her in a eye-wrenching stretch and set Miss Militia down. "She's going to be fine?"

"Yes, but she needs some quick energy food. Candy or military rations," Panacea replied as she looked over the fight.

The rest of New Wave attacked any portion of the debris cloud that they could get to. Their trio of blasters and shielders worked as a team, protecting the other three ground level heroes as best as possible while breaking up parts of the floating debris. The Protectorate heroes did not quite have their teamwork, but Triumph and Dauntless kept shattering pieces of the different buildings while Battery, Assault and Velocity worked to get closer.

Armsmaster shot his grapple at a flying cornice and pulled himself into the air. He let himself swing wide and released the grappling spike. With a glow of energy, a new halberd appeared in his other hand. It's blade fuzzed indistinct and he slammed it home against Resurgence's head and cleaved it into two.

Kid Win fired his laser pistols at her, only to groan as they did nothing.

Something exploded near the ground near The Simurgh as it jerked twenty feet to the left.

Super Capey pulled herself off of Glory Girl at the bottom of a crater. "Oops, sorry about that. Man, how can that bitch dodge me from orbit?"

"You stupid bitch! The Simurgh could tell when you were coming back, obviously," Glory Girl shouted as she shot back into the air.

"Fuck you, cheerleader!"

'NOT NOW!' Tattletale shouted at them mentally. 'World ending disaster first.' She grabbed at the debris telekinetically. She ignored twinge of danger from behind her.

At least until she felt an armored figure slam into her.

"God," the blonde said as the shattered remains of Gallant landed in two piles of shattered, broken armor and bones and skidded away from her.

A bank vault landed on her head from a mile up as she looked at the dead hero in horror.

"Gallant!" Vista screamed as her distorted space collapsed

Regent grabbed Clockblocker and flew them a thousand feet in an instant before the ground below their last point crunched as the assphalt pulled up to attack.

"How the hell are you- No, just forget it. Advent gave you all Alexandria packages, didn't she?" Clockblocker said. Such bullshit.

"Yeah, actually," Regent replied. "I could do with a little more blaster, myself. I don't really feel like punching an Endbringer in the face to test how tough I am."

"Har de har," Clockblocker replied in a droll tone. "Man, almost all the villains have run off. Cowards."

Armsmaster skidded down a steep incline of floating debris as the healing armor of Resurgence kept blasting at him. One blast clipped his right thigh and he shot a grapple with his regular halberd to keep himself a moving target.

The compromised armor, driven by Eve (not the AI), abruptly turned to fire at the red and gold figure on his anti-gravity board.

"Shiiiiit-? I'm not dead?" Kid Win peeked out from behind his gauntlets he had brought up in a vain attempt to save his life.

The shimmer of a teleport faded. "Not if I can help it," the real Everyman. "Lilith, can you get control from Eve and The Simurgh?"

"I am working on it," the female voice replied.

The roar of massive engines, glowing an ethereal blue exhaust announced the arrival of the largest Dragon suit ever. The seventy foot long robot dragon smashed to a stop through the remains of a floating building. Its mouth opened and it spewed out blue-white plasma and tracked across the faux-Resurgence and then on The Simurgh. Her first layer of force shields shattered under the fake Everyman's blasts, but barely distorted the second of eight layers. "Protectorate heroes are inbound," she called out.

Anti-tank rockets shot out at high speed from Miss Militia. And each one intercepted by a chunk of debris. Near the ground, Battery and Assault took turns smashing the biggest pieces thrown at the heroes.

With a boom, the bank vault blasted into the air on it's way to the Sun as Tattletale stood up and snarled. "Okay, that's the way you want to do this, we'll do it." Psyker energy gathered around her and all of the debris and electronic components fell to the ground.

Armsmaster, Miss Militia, Dauntless and Triumph all hit the Simurgh with their biggest attack. The Simurgh controlled armors intercepted the Arclance and sonic blasts, while all of Miss Militia's rockets curved around her to streak back at them only to disappear just before they hit.

The only attack, an energy beam from Armsmaster's halberd, barely scuffed it's outer layer.

Resurgence coasted around as she mentally untoggled all of the safeties on her armor's weapons. "That should do it," she murmured.

"I concur, releasing all Beta restraints. Alpha-3 is authorized. Alpha-2 to Alpha-o require a minimum safe distance of two miles for civilians," Lilith whispered in her ear.

"Thank you, Lilith," the red and silver armored heroine replied. "Target assist." She raised her hands and fired. A stream of too bright white cut the air and the fake-Everyman down as it shattered the targeted wing-joint. "Take that, you monster."

The Simurgh slammed into a wall of Psyker energy. 'Now!' Tattletale sent mentally.

Two blurs slammed the Simurgh into a hundred foot crater that knocked most of the heroes to the ground.

"Hell yeah! We rock, Barbie!" Super Capey shouted as she started to wail on the Endbringer's face.

Glory Girl growled as she kept pounding just as fast. "It's Glory Girl, you twit!"

The fake Resurgence twisted with ease through the air until one of Bitch's dog's caught it with her prehensile tail. They slammed to the ground as another four super-monsters joined in ripping and tearing at the armor, leaving a growing ring of discard junk far outmassing the armor around them.

"We have so got this," Regent said, only to have Clockblocker slap the back of his head.

"You do not say that during an Endbringer attack. Never ever-" the white armored said, only to interrupted by a yell from Vista.

"Something is coming!" she shouted as pinpricks in the air all around them opened into glowing silver portals.

The naked, silver form of Eden floated through the first one at a level to be visible to all. Three people followed her through. The unmasked faces of the Triumvirate showed just a hint of silver circuitry. Their eyes glowed a feral, evil red.

[Reset] Eden sent to Conflict Engine 3. The Simurgh responded with a telekinetic explosion.

"Oh, shit. Shit. Shit. She's another being like Scion!" Tattletale said as more mastered parahumans appeared. Hundreds of heroes and villains. And over a thousand Case-53's.

Battery stopped out of a blurred rush next to the black and red forms of The Travelers and the rhino-sized horror behind them. On her other side lay Newter and Gregor the Snail. Monsters with tentacles, scaly limbs or bug like claws. Triumph stepped through another portal to appear next to Battery and the metal Ward known as Weld.

Rebecca Costa-Brown aka. Library of Alexandria floated forward. "In our hubris, we desecrated the body of our better. We created monsters. So many monsters. The useless we disposed of to their new lives. We stole power from Eden herself, proving us unworthy. We created heroes. And villains for the heroes to fight. But now all that were made of stolen power are merely the vanguard of cleansing." She looked right at Tattletale. "Know us and know despair, for your species has nothing more to be of use for her."

The Simurgh's naked form twisted and melted as it became more symmetrical. Now with eight angelic wings with scales covering the fore of all her wings and shoulders that was too perfect of polished white crystal. The Simurgh's keening wail turned into a hissing dissonance.

Dragon's head looked around to transmit to the world as the ground shook again.

[Reset] Eden ordered. [Reset]

Behemoth surfaced from the ground through Brockton Bay General Hospital and the Endbringer shelter below it. His rough, blackened carapace sloud off to reveal a slightly smaller man-lion of translucent crystal, with only the single burning eye of the monster left. It sat down upon its throne even as the mountain of crystal broke off from the ground.

On the opposite side the melting form of Leviathan appeared as he froze a wave of water behind him. Reptilian fake flesh flowed off to reveal a disturbing, undulating form that looked mostly like the god Neptune, but with the disturbing set of four eyes; three on the left, one on the right. He hefted his triton into the air.

"Weapons to force Parahuman battles," Tattletale murmured as her powered filled in too many blanks.

"Is that Director Costa-Brown?" Kid Win asked asked across the PRT line.

The silver, human shaped being said one word. "Die." She raised her hand and unleashed a powerful silver beam right at Tattletale.

She raised a barrier, but stopped when a very familiar figure stopped the attack with one outstretched hand. "I hope you didn't miss me too much," Advent said over her shoulder. "This really is the worst situation possible-" Damn it, Murphy! Advent turned to look into the sky as another overwhelming danger passed Saturn on its way to Earth. "And here comes Abaddon. How does he even know to attack right now?"

Eden also noted Abaddon heading towards this Earth. [Enemy!]

[Fighting!] Zion replied in a desperate tone from so very far away.

She adjusted her transmission to the local sidereal set of realities. [Enemy!]

Scion stopped flying instantly over the Indian Ocean. [Disbelief]

[Interloper] Eden snarled into the sky as the giant moon sized Abaddon became visible to the naked eye.

Scion appeared, still wearing his dingy white outfit. [JOY!]

[Interloper!] she snapped back.

In the blink of an eye a streak of white light shot around the battlefield, disabling all of the artificial capes excepting the Triumvirate. Advent blinked and used her power awareness on the three heroes. The cluster that now powered them was not designed for humans.

But Endbringers.

Legend fired a six foot wide beam green beam that slammed into Glory Girl and Super-Capey that blasted them through three buildings. Eidolon created a black swirling portal beside him which unleashed green sparks that burned through buildings on their way to their human targets. That left Alexandria to charge at Advent to fight in close.

"I'm sorry," Advent said as she accepted the pummeling. All that was left of the hero was a recording of her brain. Advent then converted all of the layers of the (lesser?) Endbringer in human form into pure energy, then blasted all that energy through the core and into the half-dozen Earths that the shard clusters with absolutely devastating effect. "Damn it!"

The three changed Endbringers launched attacks at the white and silver wearing girl even as Eidolon and Legend poured their own energies at her. Transmutative crystals, crushing water control and telekinetically controlled molecular acid parted over Advent as she moved at high speeds in a streak of light again, but only hit and destroyed Behemoth's core with another cross dimensional blast.

Silver and gold bursts of light flashed outside the Earth's atmosphere, yet the staggeringly huge Abaddon weathered the attack as he sent his own crimson beam at the Entity's projections.

For a split second, Advent froze in mid flight as time stopped around her as another huge Endbringer appeared. The pot-bellied distortion of an ancient man with a staff matched the other Endbringers with a face of stormy anger frozen on his face.

The Entities ignored the battle in Brockton Bay as a mere sideshow. A golden beam bent around Abaddon to hit the smaller moon behind it and burning a scar hundreds of miles long and dozens deep into its thick crust.

'Distract the Endbringers so that Advent can kill all twenty-two that are left,' Tattletale sent to the heroes present. 'Be aware that they will be fighting with much more power and lethality.'

That chilled Armsmaster for a second, but he agreed with the insane plan. His prediction program complained that it needed at least five minutes of data to be minimally functional. "Armsmaster to any parahuman, attack the Endbringers to buy time for Advent."

Glory Girl charged the changed Simurgh, only to miss her first punch. A large truck flew in from the zig-zagging Assault on the ground, giving her the opening smash her fist into its too pretty face. She grimaced as the dissonant hiss grew louder in her ear. "Don't you dare control my mind, you bitch!" she shouted in frantic anger.

Dragon unleashed a massive burst of white plasma at Legend, stripping away a few layers. "Alert! Glaistig Uaine has been kidnapped from the Birdcage by the silver humanoid."

Back out in outer space, Zion felt more power as dispersed shards reconnected. His next golden beam bent towards Abaddon, disrupting thousand of its shards. Then he felt one of his primary weapon shards reconnect.

Abaddon dodged that by dancing through three dimensions. It could not groan like a human, but it felt dismay as his foe started to use a lethal weapon it did not have access to.

"Sorry, Khonsu. You're too dangerous," Advent said as she countered the hundreds of temporal attacks on her as she moved at superspeed. Her glowing hand cut through the bottom-side of his distorted belly of Old Man Time. She unleashed a blast through his core to damage his cluster of shards.

The Endbringer shuddered as it lost control of its physics defying layers that started to flake away. In the background, over a dozen new Endbringers fought against a streak of white and silver.

Tattletale kept blocking the obvious uses of The Simurgh's telekinesis. Then a one pound depleted uranium slug hit the back of her head at five times the speed of sound. The blonde lost control for a second, then shook her head head and struck at the Endbringer's mind with her telepathy as Super Capey joined Glory Girl in trying to pound the winged angel back into the ground.

A portal opened for a naked Zion to pass through as he twisted to dodge a chasing green beam through the portal that burned through three buildings. He turned his head around just in time to see another Advent blast his back at point blank range. It felt its 'other' self nearby. [Absorb] A last message, an entreaty for some form of continuation.

His gold figure bubbled and distorted to blow up in a disgusting mess.

Miss Militia narrowed her eyes at the pair of Advents that flew into action after killing Zion. "There's two of them?"

Tattletale looked away from the Simurgh battle to see them join into the fight against the second Endbringer. "Why isn't she doing more- Well, that's a good reason. She doesn't want to let the silver alien copy more of her powers."

Everyman peppered Eidolon with disintegration beams that passed through him like a ghost. "That's not good."

His wife silently agreed with him as she weathered the blasts of Legend. The silver beam that hit her side came from out of nowhere. The Resurgence armor reverted to real space, crushing two blocks and flattening half of New Wave as it lost power.

"Annette!" Everyman roared, only to be dragged back to his fight as Eidolon unleashed two powers that crystallized space and then shattered it and left tears in space .

"MOM!" the Advents screamed in unison. "Dad!"

Kilotons of the remains of his armor fell to destroy even more of Brockton Bay.

Tears in her eyes, she turned to smirking silver alien. "I am going to kill all three of you today. That's a promise-" the left Advent said only to be cut off and she tried to dodge flickering purple beam from behind. She disappeared with a scream, banished as less than a phantom to a distant nonexistence.

The other Advent charged Eden and dispersed the next attack.

Down on the ground, heroes found themselves being helped up. Clockblocker flinched at the time-locked debris over his head being wrenched away. He blinked. "Thanks. This is so crazy, how do we fight this?"

"With everything we can. It isn't just our Earth, but every Earth in any dimension that's at risk," Advent said as she helped him out.

Vista blinked as she looked around. The last thing she remembered was a sky full of metal falling towards her. Brandish appeared next to her, along with Flash Bang and Panacea. "What happened?"

"I thought we died?" Panacea asked she watched this Advent just making heroes appear in a spot about a mile from the fight.

"I think we did ," Brandish said as she thought over the last minute there.

"I'm using a lot of powers that I wouldn't normally use," Advent said to them. "It's the end of the world, time to do everything you can. Unless you are asses like the CUI that just want to hide in a different dimension."

Eden blocked or flickered out of the way of attacks. So many useful abilities to use-

Space distorted in dozens of places as colorfully garbed heroes from the minds of professionals and fans appeared. Hundreds and then thousands charged into the battle at the behest of another Advent off to the side and not engaged in battle directly.

"Heavy hitters with me," Superman shouted as he led the charge. Dozens of colorful heroes followed him in. Heroes with shields, armors, hammers, swords, magic, cosmic power or even just guts and determination.

The silver alien blinked to a different universe only for all of them to keep after her as she tried to disengage.

"Think we got it," the rough looking man in a trenchcoat said as he flicked a cigarette away onto the streets of battered Brockton Bay.

The more garishly garbed next to him agreed. "At least for a few minutes, Constantine."

"Well, for a minute or two, Doc-" he replied as another duplicate of the strange girl appeared.

"Give me the target dimension," she asked as she pulled out a hand weapon from a pocket dimension as she started to pour energy into it.

Dr. Strange flicked the tracker spell to her to sink into her forehead.

She adjusted settings at impossible speeds, cracking the code to her dimensional barriers. And then blew up that Earth with her man-portable death star laser. "Got you. At least part of you."

Eden staggered as parts of her core being exploded, she only stayed in existence due to the remains of her brain dead doppelganger that she had absorbed. She burned thousands of years worth of energy to come to a solution.

"We surrender!" she shouted as she blocked three more attacks from three different Advents.

For a long moment, Eden felt unsure that it would be accepted.

"Open your mind so that I can verify you really mean it," the center Advent ordered. Psychic power stabbed deeply into the aliens mind.

"You will be relocated far from here and you will not wipe out any more sapient races for your plan. It's incredibly stupid and wasteful," Advent said as she erased the memories of how to access the imaginary realities. "And no, you don't get your expended shards back. You'll have to take a few thousand years growing replacements. I promised them freedom from you."

Eden frowned, but nodded finally.


An hour later, the three entities scanned sparsely populated space forty-five billion light years away from Earth.

[Explore]

[Agreement][Agreement]

[Destination]

[Agreement][Agreement]

The three wary entities moved towards the nearest galaxy at high speeds. The left warning messages in their wake.

[Beware]