Ok just a bit of warning this isn't the chapter I promised, I just had to write this down as I think it belongs in the story, any way enjoy.

Chapter 10: Betrayal

*location – Doomstadt, Latveria

Zemo burst through the doors of the throne room, sword in hand with his mind filled with rage. All the other masters were gathered including the ones escaped from Rykers Island and Doom was sat in his throne.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS DOOM!?" Zemo roared at the top of his voice while gripping his sword tighter.

"I would appreciate it if you would lower your voice in my throne room Zemo" Doom said nonchalantly

"Don't you dare use that tone with me, I AM YOUR LEADER!" Zemo yelled at the top of his lungs pointing his sword in Doom's direction

"Not anymore Zemo, I think the masters are due for a change in leadership" Doom said picking up the chalice at on his throne's arm and taking a sip through his mask.

Zemo's mind was full of rage as he began walking toward Doom's throne, how dare he speak to him like that, Zemo was the one who made the masters and it would be a long time in hell before he took orders from a pompous latverian royal like Doom. The tension that filled the room was so thick you could cut it with a knife and speaking of sharp objects Zemo had his sword pointed at Doom's throat and gave him a glare of pure rage.

"Care to repeat that?" Zemo asked with gritted teeth as he gripped the sword handle so hard his knuckles went red.

Doom pushed the blade away with an armoured finger like it was nothing, and gave Zemo a very calm look.

"I said I think that your time as leader of the masters has went long enough, I am simply taking over" Doom said with a calm voice

"Oh really…and what makes you think I will let you live long enough to take over?" Zemo asked pointing his sword back at Doom's throat.

"Zemo, Zemo, Zemo….what you have failed to realize is that I have already taken over, all that is left is YOUR DEPARTURE!" Doom roared as he shot a blast of energy from his hand into Zemo's chest sending him flying across the room and slamming into a wall.

Zemo struggled back to his feet balancing himself on his sword; Doom on the other hand rose from his throne and began slowly walking towards Zemo with his chalice in hand.

"All the times you ordered me around like filth, all the times you dared to speak to me like an imbecile in my own throne room, now I finally get to stop buying my time and show you what we latverians do to scum!" Doom half shouted as he sharply kicked Zemo in the gut

Doom reached down and grabbed the back of Zemo's mask and hoisted him up by it, he looked Zemo dead in the eye before throwing him onto one of the tables, Zemo crashed through the various plates and candlesticks before falling at the other end of the long table. The masters who were gathered in the hall all witnessed this and were following the movements of the two.

Doom took a sip from his chalice before setting it down on a table; he slowly waked towards Zemo as he got to is feet stumbling over the place.

"Dynamo, kill this treacherous scum!" Zemo shouted at the steel plated Russian who looked back and forth between him and doom before simply looking blankly at Zemo.

"Oh dear, it seems that you don't really inspire the loyalty of your men when you can barely stand up…never mind, let me show you how a real leader takes charge" Doom said smiling maniacally behind his mask.

"Daken, Carnage…show him some real pain" Doom ordered with a joyous tone

Daken immediately drew his claws and swiped a few times at Zemo slicing his arm and chest, Zemo tried his best to evade Daken's attacks but he would end up tearing a piece of his uniform or cutting him. Carnage shot a stream of red webbing out at Zemo snagging his leg and yanking him to the floor; Carnage then leapt onto Zemo and morphed his arm into a spike which he stabbed Zemo in the shoulder with, Zemo let out a painful grunt while Carnage screeched into his face.

Zemo kicked Carnage off of him and tried to get back to his feet as quickly as he could, Daken saw this and shoved his claws into Zemo's shoulders causing him to let out a loud yell, blood was pouring from his wounds as Daken raised him up only to toss him away. Zemo could handle a few hard hits from a one on one fight but this was totally different, as he hit the ground he felt someone kneel down next to his and dust him off, he opened his eyes and saw Doom looming over him with a gleam in his eye.

"Don't worry Zemo you aren't going to die, I have something much worse in mind, I am going to make you suffer so much that by the end you will have wished I killed you" Doom said as he grabbed the scruff of Zemo's neck and yanked him up.

Zemo felt blood trickle down the side of his mouth, darkening his mask's mouth area with a deep red colour.

The Enchantress began to cast a spell, summoning a portal out of pure energy. The other end of the portal seemed to be in flux as it seemed it was to send Zemo somewhere at random at the moment, Zemo knew out of experience that the Enchantress' portals needed time to fix a destination and right now was his best chance to avoid what Doom had planned for him, there was no way in hell he would give Doom the satisfaction of winning this.

Zemo summoned up all his strength and used it to land a right hook at Doom's face causing him to stumble back while Zemo leapt to his feet and sprinted toward the portal, he knocked the Enchantress clean off her feet and leapt through the portal, without the enchantress casting her spell the portal quickly vanished.

"Dam it!" Doom cursed as he set his face plate back in place.

"Do you want me to find him?" the Enchantress asked

"No, he isn't our problem anymore, and with those wounds I doubt he will survive long enough to factor into it" Doom said as he rose up.

The tinkerer then walked up to the Doctor and asked "When do we proceed with the plan Doctor?"

Doom simply smiled behind his mask before replying loudly for all the masters to hear "Well without Zemo here to ruin the progress of our plan we shall buy our time for when our foes will least suspect us, because of Zemo's carelessness the heroes would have discovered us and unveiled our plan. But now under my leadership we will make this work to our advantage, we prepare for the next stage so it goes perfectly"

The masters gathered seemed content with Doom's reasoning and no one questioned him, Doom smiled behind his mask and picked up his chalice once again and raised it in the air.

"To Zemo" Doom chuckled

"TO ZEMO!" the other masters announced raising their cups before bursting out into laughter.

"Now all we need do is wait" Doom smiled as he brought his chalice to his mouth.

Zemo fell face first into snow, the surrounding area was covered in snow and ice, the wind howled like a wolf as the ice cold wind his Zemo's wounds it seemed to sooth the pain by a fraction, Zemo tried to get up only to fall back into the snow. His blood turned the snow crimson as it dripped from his wounds; he used every remaining bit of his strength to get into a kneeling position and raised a hand to pull off his mask.

The wind blew into his face and resulted in frost clinging to his face, he looked into the sky and the snow falling onto him and swore "I swear Doom….you will pay for this…..you will…all…pa..." Zemo couldn't finish the sentence as he fell unconscious into the snow with a thump.

Yeah I know that chapter was short but I really wanted to include it, hope you guys enjoyed it, the next chapter will be the one I promised last one.