Chapter Ten: Genesis Part Two.

Harry Potter was almost amused by some of the fixes that he got himself into. He expected this coming but this would be perfect. Two of his greatest enemies along without any collateral damage on his part but that was beside the point. Apocalypse stood to his right and Kang stood off to his left. It was essentially a stand up.

"I purpose a temporary truce, because he is far more dangerous than I had realized," Apocalypse said. He eyed this young man nervously. Anyone who could attack him and cause damage was worthy of his full attention.

"Yes, you would be wise to come to that realization, for no one is…"

Harry blasted Kang in the back while he was speaking.

"Guess, you didn't see that one coming, man of the future," Harry replied. He threw himself high into the air and drilled his foot down hard into the back of Kang's head with a curb stomp. He reached into his costume and pulled out a pair of three glowing daggers. He sliced the tendons of his enemy and caused him to scream.

Apocalypse thought that attack put his enemy in perfect. Another version of his enemy flashed behind him. Apocalypse blasted him but he disappeared into nothing. Three versions of Harry Potter appeared on either side of him. Daggers were at the ready and they were launched at Apocalypse. The skin piercing metal was just barely blocked. The first and in his mind most powerful mutant that ever lived swatted them all off like they were absolutely nothing.

"None can match my power!" Apocalypse yelled.

Harry pulled out a grenade and super charged it. He picked it up at Gath's fortress and was using it to great effect in taking Apocalypse down. The grenade lobbed at his head caused Apocalypse to drop to his knees.

Kang wasn't out of the race yet. He trapped Harry Potter in an energy bubble from behind.

"At last, you will bow before me," Kang answered. There was a loud bang when a shockwave flew through his armor and knocked him off guard.

Kang was teleported out of the way before Harry can deliver a more dangerous blow. The young wizard dropped down to the ground.

He knew that Apocalypse was around somewhere. Someone like that he'd want to keep in his line of sight before too long.

Harry cut off what he was sure to be another grand standing speech by nailing Apocalypse flush.

Suddenly, in a mysterious manner, both of them were flashed back. This took Harry completely unaware because he didn't consciously do this to himself. The only satisfaction he felt was that Apocalypse was rocked all the same.

The two of them stood in front of the ship. It appears that time had been completely frozen. Harry could easily undo that effect. That would have to way for later. He stood head to head with Apocalypse without anything to distract him.

He sensed that there was another presence lingering off in the background. There was a lighter presence and one filled with hope and energy that glowed around him.

It gave him the strength to conjure an energy dagger and plunge it into the chest of his enemy. His enemy staggered back and gave a pained howl.

"You cannot do this to me," Apocalypse growled. He couldn't believe that he was being assaulted like this.

"I can and I have," the young man responded. He reared back his arm and slammed it into his chest.

Apocalypse wasn't out of tricks yet. He tried to summon all of his energy. This blast leveled entire armies.

Harry was savvy enough not to get hit by the blast by simply not being in the way. He went behind Apocalypse and nailed him with a series of punches.

The further he got inside the ship, it looked familiar. Harry didn't suspect that Deja-Vu would be the proper term here. Given that he experienced this little confrontation in the future and not the past. He would take what he could get though. He kept firing a series of rapid fire punches to the back of the neck of his enemy.

He rocked his enemy and put him closer to the chamber. The very thing that brought Apocalypse life would also be his prison.

"I'll see you in several hundred years," Harry said. The magical brass knuckles appeared on his fingers.

He could try and put him down right now but the universe had its way of setting things back to where they should go. Which did make him almost wonder why these Adventures Through Time were relevant in the first place.

He slammed a series of punches right to his enemy's chest and doubled him over. Harry opened the pod. It responded pretty well to him which made him wonder of its origin.

That was beside the point and Harry leveled his enemy with a huge axe handle blow. Apocalypse staggered back and fell into the pod.

He screamed and tried to pull himself out. Despite his best efforts, he could do no such thing. The pod snapped shut.

Harry knew that once inside the pod, it would operate a sequence that would send it into the center of the Earth.

He jumped out backwards and landed at the feet of the girls. Time was completely frozen around them still.

Harry would deal with that in a minute. He watched the pyramid completely dig through the ground until it disappeared, never to be seen again.

Harry saw a robed figure slink out of the shadows. He rushed Harry from behind.

Harry nailed him with an off handed backhand and shattered his jaw instantly. He fell down to the ground in agony.

The girls slowly came back to life and time continued to flow all around them again. Kara was the first to really come to her senses. The blonde shook her head.

"Okay, would anyone like to explain what just happened?" she asked. She was completely confused beyond all explanation.

Harry got done explain what happened to the girls regarding his little battle with Apocalypse. There were a few parts of it that he didn't understand but he figured it out for the most part.

"So, you defeated him just like that?" Gwen asked. Harry nodded in response. The blonde girl shook her head. "I don't know, it just seems a bit…..well….."

"Anti-climatic?" Kitty chimed in happily. That caused Kara to roll her eyes at both of them.

"Really, you two sound like people on the Internet," Kara responded. "Excuse us for not putting on a show for you, if we can trash the bad guy in a minute."

"Well, it's not like we didn't get to see it anyway….I mean, Harry vanished, and then reappeared in a second, but there's supposed to be a whole bunch of stuff happening," Kitty babbled on completely. She sounded excited.

"Yes, Kang vanished and someone transported myself and Apocalypse back into the temple, where I finished him off," Harry answered. The young wizard really was trying to figure out what exactly happened there. "I don't know who sent me back but I sense something."

"Is that good or bad?" Kat wondered. She had been oddly silent up until this point.

Harry thought about it for a second before he confirmed. "There is one good and one bad. There is something that followed us through the time stream that we didn't want any part of. And there is something else that followed us through the time stream that is helping us."

"What would that be?" Jean asked.

"If I knew, we'd be in a bit better position than we are now," Harry admitted. The girls were all agreeable about that. "On the bright side, we have one major threat down."

"And you technically don't have to worry about him, because your past self already dealt with him in the future," Kat said. What she just said made a far great deal more sense in her head which spun in confusion. She scrunched up her nose and gave a deep sigh. "You know, that makes a lot more sense in my head."

"It always does," Gwen commented darkly. "Did I mention…"

"Yes, you did," Kara replied. She hovered above the ground. She expected something to happen regarding Kang but she wasn't sure what that was.

"Just making sure," Gwen said. Her eyes averted to the robed figure that Harry knocked out and promptly bound. "What exactly do we do with him?"

"Good question," Harry admitted. He saw the man groaning on the ground. His jaw was rattled and Harry lifted him up off of the ground. "I have a feeling that he knows something."

"Well if he does, he isn't talking," Kat commented in confusion.

"Broke his jaw," Kara answered. Kat's eyes widened and she nodded in response.

"Well, I guess that would be why," Kat agreed. The prisoner stared at them with utter hate. "Broke his jaw and did you give him a concussion?"

"No problem, he doesn't need to talk and I just have a feeling this is the type of guy that we don't want flapping his yap," Jean answered. She shifted her mind. "Try not to think of everything that you know."

The man struggled underneath Jean's grip. That little suggestion caused everything that he knew to bubble up to the surface.

'Works well every time,' Jean thought in a triumph. She frowned when she went through this mind. She saw so many different lives and there were three souls that were the common denominator within each other.

'Hawkman and Hawkgirl or Hawkwoman depending on the time,' Kara thought. 'We know how they get getting re-incarnated with each other, they got killed numerous times in tragic ways. Shayera was finally able to break the cycle.'

'Yes, I'm well aware of that,' Harry thought. He had helped her be the one to break the cycle. 'So there's a version of her here.'

'He thinks that he could have sacrificed them with the help of Apocalypse to ensure his immortality,' Jean thought. Her mind shifted through his and she got all of the information that she needed. 'And Kang has them. They were fighting Kang but they got captured. At least as far as he knows.'

'Well, I guess that we're going to have to go by this information,' Harry thought. 'Is that all?'

'Only that he's not too happy with you,' Jean answered. She gave a shadow of a smile.

'Isn't there a line forming far around the block for that one?' Kitty asked in a cheeky tone of voice.

Jean didn't say anything. One psychic punch to the head of her enemy knocked him completely unconscious. He slumped to the ground, knocked out of it.

Harry smiled, he thought that went a bit more smoothly than he would have liked. There were still some things left to do.

'So now what?' Kara asked.

'Kang's gone dark, so we can't very well do anything against him until he shows up,' Harry thought. He smiled. 'But there's one good thing to this. I won't have to find him, he'll just come and find me.'

Gwen's expression darkened. 'And this is a good thing for any reason, how?'

Ravonna honestly did worry about the sanity of Kang. She watched him from afar. He was going to talk to that future version of himself is.

"You've just now figured out that he's out of his mind," Chy'era said lightly.

Ravonna tried to ignore the very real thoughts of dread that were coming through her minds. He returned wounded. She tended to his wounds. He barely gave her thanks and then returned once he was fit enough.

His obsession with Harry Potter continued to destroy him. He was not the man that he once was, even though he was deluded enough to figure out that he was something more.

"Sometimes they're never what we think they are," the winged woman added.

Ravonna grimaced when she thought about this. Her king turned into something that he wasn't. It was completely awful to think that he could have been so much more but he turned into a tyrant that ruled through power as opposed to anything else. The woman brushed the hair out of her eyes and took a step forward.

She didn't dare walk forward. She didn't dare stop and listen in. She stepped back. Fear washed over her body.

There was some dark force that infused with Kang's mind. She wasn't delusional. She knew that Kang was obsessive before. He took obsession to an entirely new and extremely unhealthy level the more that he focused on Harry Potter.

She needed to figure out what she wanted to do. She didn't want to be dragged down with Kang.

Kang was oblivious to anything that was going on around him other than his obsession.

"By the time you received this vessel from me, I would have already been destroyed," the future Kang said. "I managed to configure the module so you can receive it before everything gets wiped out of time and it will get wiped out of time."

"How do I know that this is the truth?"

"I will not lie to you and I will not sugarcoat the danger that you are in," Kang from the future commented. "The Avengers are mere thorns in our side. They have set back our well based plans through luck and circumstances but after they pass from this world, they will be nothing but a mere memory."

The future Kang looked at his past self. One could see a glow of red flickering through future Kang's eyes.

"There is always Harry Potter, he is eternal," Kang added. "If you allow him to live, your past, your present, and your future is all in peril."

The present Kang wondered what his past self was telling him. There were numerous thoughts that popped into his mind and none of them were what one would be considered good.

"Past, present, and future," Kang of the future whispered.

"Yes, I understand what I must do," present Kang commented. He knew that he had been going against this problem from the wrong angle.

"Do you?" the future Kang asked.

"Yes, I do," the present Kang responded. He was swift, decisive. He wasn't going to falter any. "I will do what I can to wipe out Harry Potter and his companions. History will never know that they exist. They will be defeated by any means necessary."

"Just as it is written, in the end, there will only be Kang," the future conqueror commented. There was malice intent in his eyes.

"Yes, there can only be one," the present Kang commented. He would grow into something more powerful than this one.

Ravonna dipped her head back into her quarters. She had heard way too much. The tone of Kang's voice was something that she would never forget hearing. She walked past the prisoner.

She moved towards a cool jug of water and downed it. The breath escaped her body when she shook her head, feeling refreshed.

Kang wasn't the man that she met all of those years ago. If he had never found that future module, he would have never gone down this dark path. She had her doubts about whether or not it was an authentic future version of Kang or not.

There were numerous doubts to be honest. The woman brushed the hair out of her head and slumped down in a chair. She was surrounded by all of the comforts that this ship offered. She could be waited on hand and foot by drones all day long. She could get pampered.

She got all of the benefits of royalty but funnily enough she felt trapped in a prison. In Kang's world, Harry Potter existed and only Harry Potter. Ravonna didn't believe that Kang's past, present, and future quite hinged on him.

But maybe it did, and Kang was the one that caused the wrath of the Star Child. She wished that he would have stayed in the distant future and not bothered with any time travel. The King grew bored with his own time though and he wished to conquer others.

That was a road that caused that chain of dominoes to be unleashed. Ravonna feared for what could happen to him.

She made a split second decision of what she needed to do. It would only need a subtle modification but this ship would deliver a beacon that would get his attention.

One way or another, this would have to end. Kang was dragging this out too long. She wanted this to finish so she could get on with her life.

Then and only end, could she find what she truly wanted. The heart wanted truly what it wanted after all.

She wondered whether or not if the heart wanted something different. Ravonna reached forward and hesitated.

"Sorry my king, but this has to end," Ravonna said. She pressed the button.

She expected Kang's guard to swoop down on her, accusing treason but much to her relief that didn't happen.

"Kang seems a tad bit obsessed with you," Kitty commented. "What if a female alternate version of yourself stood him up for a male alternate version of yourself?"

"That seems…"

"Well here me out," Kitty said. Gwen raised her hands and allowed Kitty to finish. "And he decided that he would just wipe out every single version of Harry Potter in existence. And you just happened to be the one that he focused on."

"You know, that's almost plausible," Gwen admitted. Kara gave her one of those looks. Her eyebrow raised.

"Maybe, but it's pretty doubtful," Kara answered her. She doubted though that Kang remembered the reasons at all. There was just nothing but a crippling obsession towards Harry Potter. It pretty much destroyed Kang's life. "Is it just me or is it surprising that Selene hasn't made contact yet?"

"You figured that she would be in touch by now, knowing her," Jean answered. That was something that she wondered about and she was kind of curious why Selene hadn't gotten in touch. She looked towards Harry who frowned.

"Her and Sonja were off to establish the Church, and I'm sure that's something that she has a lot of attention on," Harry reminded them.

"Do you think that she has some new recruits?" Gwen asked. Kara scoffed at that.

"If it's Selene, and she didn't, I would have to say that she was losing her touch," Kara said. Not that she would say that to her face, because Selene had that way of making people look foolish.

"Technically, she wouldn't gain that touch yet, because it's the past and stuff," Kitty answered. Kara shrugged and conceded that point. Kitty looked smug that she had that point conceded to her. Jean turned towards Kitty and gave her a stern warning.

Kitty fell back in line. Kat gave a slight giggle that was very unbecoming of Kandorian royalty. But since she wasn't on Kandor anymore, she didn't feel too inclined to hold herself up to standard procedure.

"When we're done, we can continue," Harry commented. He found himself amused by this interplay very much but he wanted to move on. "And we need to keep our focus right where it belongs."

"On Kang," Gwen agreed. "Because we know that his focus is going to be on you, the obsessive nutjob that he is."

One of the pieces of equipment in their hide out pinged. Gwen was the first one to walk over towards it. She frowned.

"Someone is trying to send a message to us," Gwen commented. "It isn't much of a message though."

She tried to see if she could unscramble what was sent with what equipment they could have. There were a few things on Kat's ship that helped them, combined with the equipment that they liberated from Gath's fortresses.

"But, the good news is, I think that it might be coming from Kang's ship," Gwen said. She tried to follow the signal back discreetly. "Whoever sent this wanted us to know it was being sent. And they didn't want anyone in the ship to know that it was being sent."

"That's really good then," Harry answered. His frown deepened when he looked towards Gwen. "So how…?"

"We follow the yellow brick road," Gwen commented. She locked onto her Extremis powers which was good in help to jump start the system. "Kang is in a pocket dimension but the access point is not far from here."

"I thought that the plan was to let him come to us," Kara said. She wasn't really complaining, just making an observation.

Harry's answer pretty much summed up everything in a nutshell. "You know what, plans change."

Kara let out a light whistle. "Right, of course they do."

The party was off to see what trouble they can get into. Kang thought that time was on their side. In his arrogance, he was too obsessed with Harry Potter that he didn't even consider the possibility of treason.

"So, do you have any idea who sent the distress signal?" Gwen asked.

'I have my ideas,' Harry replied. He wasn't going to say anything further but he had ideas.

Kang prepared for war against his greatest enemy. The one that his past, present, and future hinged on. The one and only Harry Potter.

"Prepare to locate him," Kang told the computer. He could hear the sounds of combat from down below.

"No need to Kang, he's right in front of you," Harry said.

Kang turned around and saw him standing there. His taunting green eyes looked down at him. Kang couldn't believe the ego this young man standing there. If he had not been distracted by that, he would have asked why he was standing there.

"Past, present, and future, it all hinges on my defeat of you in this combat arena," Kang said. He stood across from Harry Potter. "If the circumstances would have been different, we could have been allies. We are very much alike."

"That's a matter of your opinion," Harry replied. He squared off with Kang. This was the moment of truth for him and the moment of truth for Kang. Both of them locked eyes with each other. Time stood still when he approached him.

"My opinion is that you need to die now."

He blasted Harry but Harry was quicker than one of his faster weapons.

'Gwen, do you think you can take out his armor?' Harry asked. He distracted Kang. It wasn't hard because his focus was on Harry.

'Gladly,' Gwen commented. Kang's ship was completely disabled right now so there was no way that he was going to flash out of there.

Harry kept Kang busy while Gwen did her magic. The young wizard dodged Kang's attempt to impale him.

"You focused on the past so much that you destroyed your future," Harry commented. He avoided Kang's attempts to further impale him. Harry ducked and dodged the razor sharp blades when they flew towards him. "Obsession has been your downfall, just as it has been the downfall of many others."

"Stand still and fight!" Kang yelled at the top of his lungs. He rushed Harry but Harry dodged out of the way.

"You know, I'd just keep moving and win," Harry said. He smiled when he realized that Kang was making some rather stupid mistakes in his rage. "Did I mention how amusing it is when a criminal is the one that defeats himself?"

Kang slammed his fist towards the side of the ship.

Harry could see a pair of eyes watching from the distance. It didn't seem to be a looming threat.

"I can't allow you to defeat me, I'll lose everything!" Kang yelled. He went for one last ditch effort. It was almost a murder-suicide type thing.

He might fall but he was taking Harry Potter with him. Kang's teeth gritted as he prepared for the end.

The only problem was that he lost complete control of his suit. Two energy daggers appeared in Harry's hands and he flung them at him.

Kang screamed in fury when he was struck by one of them. It caused his armor to heat up with energy and explode. It caused him to land down onto the ground.

"Divert all power to transportation unit and escape," Kang replied.

"I'm sorry, your armor is not responding, please reboot and try again," a somewhat taunting voice said from within the armor.

Harry nailed Kang hard with a punch. Kang rolled over and grabbed a miniature energy blaster from the ground. He tried to fire at Harry but Harry dodged it and the energy blew a hole into Kang's ship.

Gravity became undone on the ship. Kang flew high into the air and smacked with a sickening thud on the top of the ship. He struggled to lower himself down.

Harry was able to fly over the pull of gravity. He reached up and knocked Kang out with a huge magically enhanced punch.

Kang slammed down onto the ground. The wind was completely knocked out of him.

Harry saw the module that contained the future Kang and he disabled it with his heat vision. There was something far more dangerous to that then he was seeing at the time.

"And now, it ends for you," Harry answered. He lifted Kang up off of the ground and hurled him down hard.

Kang smacked off of the ground with a solid thud and he was down. The suit engerized him and he vaporized right before Harry's very eyes.

"I hope that was entertaining enough," Harry commented. Kitty and Gwen turned up first at his back and then Kara, Jean, and Kat followed.

"Well it'd do, but you'd have to really be there to see it," Kitty admitted. Gwen nodded in response.

Harry turned around and saw the person that was standing in the shadows.

"You can come out now," Kara said to her. "We won't bite, unless you ask us very nicely to do so."

She figured that it was a female; it was always a female with Harry. At least a hundred and ten percent of the time it was some kind of female.

The woman stepped out of the shadows and revealed herself to be Queen Ravonna. This proved to be extremely interesting considering that there was a past version of her currently in stasis at the Fortress.

"Har-Zod, isn't it?" she asked.

"Ravonna," Harry said. She didn't look too surprised that he knew who he was. She was at the tender mercy of Harry and his girls though.

To Be Continued on February 12th, 2015.