Vol 1 Finale: Smash HYDRA!

Note: Iron Man's current Armor is the Iron Man Armor Mark 50, or the Infinity War Armor, from the movie, Avengers Infinity War. Mandarin's armor is based off the one from the TV show, Iron Man Armored Adventures.

SHIELD Helicarrier

Viridi stands in the evening, cold night at the landing port of the Helicarrier, waiting for the newly-formed Champions to return. Their Quinjet arrives and lands in place. Moments later, Jaune's team of interdimensional heroes walk out to meet with the nature goddess.

"Welcome back. Happy to see you guys again." Viridi said.

"No you aren't." Scarlet Spider replied.

The goddess giggles, "Yeah, you're right."

"Is Commander Tower waiting for us?" Jaune asked her.

"Along with Fury and Ironwood. We're gonna need all hands on deck if we want to take down HYDRA." Viridi replied.

"Right. Let's go." Jaune takes a few steps forward before he was cut off by Viridi's staff, "Huh?"

"Not yet, blondie. We're still waiting for a few people to show up." Viridi told him.

"Really? Who?" Jaune asked.

The sound of fliers enters the Champions' ears, where the group turns around to see two other Quinjets making a landing: Both with the Avengers Insignia but only one of them has a familiar blue hedgehog standing on top of it.

BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-Strategy

Amy gasps in joy when she instantly recognized her favorite hero," Sonic!"

Sonic lands on the floor just as the Quinjet he was on opens for the rest of the D-Avengers to walk out. From the other Quinjet comes out a few Avengers: The armored Avenger, Iron Man, rocking a new red-and-gold nanotech armor that can pretty much build anything. The Master Archer, Hawkeye. High-Winged Flyer, Falcon. And the First Avenger, Captain America. Along with them are the Freedom Fighters: Princess Tactician, Sally Acorn. Muscular mechanic, Rotor the Walrus. Master swordsman, Antoine D'Coolette, and his cyborg butt-kicking wife, Bunnie Rabbot.

All these hero teams from the three dimensions come together and meet up with the Champions and Viridi. "What's up, guys!" Spider-Man waved to Jaune and his team.

"Spider-Man! Captain America!" Ms. Marvel exclaimed in surprise and joy.

"Hmph, it's you guys, huh…" Kaine said, shaking his head with a scary face as these are the last people he wants to work with.

"Oh, don't make such a scary face," Spidey playfully remarked, "Heard from Fury you guys are gonna take on HYDRA. Called us in to help out. We'll be going to HYDRA Island from here."

"HYDRA Island…?" Jaune wondered what that place is like.

"It used to be the Island of Vytal. Now it's HYDRA's artic base," Ruby explained, "Those guys have been causing us a lot of trouble since our worlds merged. It's time we shut them down." She said with a determined look.

"It'll be fun helping out each other." Peter said.

"I'm not doing this to exactly help you…" Kaine replied dryly as his brother runs up to him.

"Come on, don't be so tough. How about a little friendly competition?" Spidey suggested with a thumbs up.

Kaine crosses his arms and turns around, coldly replies with, "I'm not interested."

BGM End

BGM-Shadow the Hedgehog OST-Way to the Ark

"Heroes!" Deputy Director Maria Hill walks out and approaches the unified heroes on the Helicarrier. "Thank you all for coming! We have just arrived at our destination! The commanders would want to see you now! Hurry up and head inside for a briefing!"

Sonic gives out a cocky chuckle, "Ah yeah! Looks like the party's getting started! Time to rock and roll!"

"You up for this, Scarlet?" Spider-Man asked his brother before running off. Kaine scoffs and follows the unified heroes for a briefing before the Battle on HYDRA Island.

BGM End

Briefing Room

BGM-Sonic Adventure 2 OST-GUN Mobile

"This is war." Nick Fury said. He stands with the other two commanders of the United Military Force, James Ironwood and Abraham Tower, as they begin briefing the unified heroes on their mission to stop HYDRA and save the world. "Our targets tonight are HYDRA and the Mandarin," Fury puts up images of a huge army of HYDRA soliders and the Mandarin, current leader of HYDRA, on screen as he talks, "We know they are behind the tech theft from Stark Industries and the stolen ISO-Dust from the Schnee Company."

Sonic moves an eye of concern to Weiss and Iron Man, both who look really piss off their company's been robbed without them aware until now. Though it's hard to tell in Iron Man's case since he's wearing his helmet.

Fury switches the screen to show a unified army of SHIELD agents, GUN soliders, and Atlas troops along with their mechs already fighting on HYDRA Island. "I've authorized an Omega-Level strike against their primary base of operations, HYDRA Island. Troops of our best agents are taking the HYDRA front lines out as we speak. But that's just to clear a path for you. We need you're "A" game. We need you to pull HYDRA down around the Mandarin's ears. This is it. This is everything. Tonight we put a stop to HYDRA, once and for all!" And with those words, the unified heroes are ready to tear through HYDRA Island, destroy their Hulkbusters, and defeat the Mandarin for the good of the united world.

BGM End

HYDRA Island (former the Island of Vytal from Remnant, fused with Twinkle Snow Zone and Bullet Station Zone from Mobius)

BGM-Sonic Forces OST-Mortar Canyon

The Island of Vytal used to be the small island where the four kingdoms of Remnant negotiated and declared peace after the Great War. It was also recently a base for the Green Goblin during his takeover over reality. Now it's HYDRA's turn to takeover. They have set up a large artic base that envelops the whole island, which has been fused with the winter-wonderland, Twinkle Snow Zone, and the rail canyon base that is Bullet Station Zone.

The United Military's forces have already engaged with the enemy on their home turf. The whole island has become a warzone. HYDRA's already gotten the military on the ropes with their giant mechs, especially the Hulkbuster variety thanks to partnership with A.I.M.

Barbara Morse, aka SHIELD agent Mockingbird, was almost killed by one of the giant robots if help didn't pierce right through it. "Impressive, huh?" Iron Man flies through the air and attacks more HYDRA goons off the snow. "Let's kick it up a notch and have some fun, people!" He said.

Iron Man hovers in the air as more help arrives in the form of the unified heroes sky-diving to the battlefield. "Let's show them what we can do!" Captain America says to his fellow sky-divers.

"All teams! Make some space!" Sally commands the heroes.

HYDRA fires a hefty barrage of missiles to the sky-divers. The heroes perform a variety of tricks to either dodge or deflect their attacks without a scratch.

"How 'bout THIS!" Knuckles works with Yang to slam dunk Sonic and Tails as destructive fireballs to make an explosive entrance for the others. Sonic shows off his cocky grin and boosts forward. Accompanied by Tails, Falcon, and the Pits, the team blazes through the competition.

Sonic jumps up to catch Falcon's hand. "Catch this!" Falcon shouts, throwing Sonic like a bowling ball towards a squadron of HYDRA soliders.

Swordmasters like Antoine and Lucina cut through enemy defensives. Shooters like Axl and Ren destroys the missiles launched on them. Rotor and Ms. Marvel destroys a HYDRA solider piloting a walking mech with ease. Behind them, Ruby zigzags her Semblance on all enemies within her vicinity, passing by other heroes like Hawkeye, Bunnie, and Jaune fighting. The silver-eyed warrior bounces off a brawler HYDRA solider before Amy defeated him while morphing her scythe to sniper mode. In the air, she spots multiple snipers. Using some fire ISO-Dust, she snipes the snipers from their hiding spot, causing a minor explosion in the process.

"Can't hide from me!" Ruby said.

A few HYDRA soliders are overwhelmed from Weiss's usage of her glyphs. The heiress bounces off of them, thrusting her rapier forward and rushes through her enemies before they could blink. She summons another glyph, this time for Sally. The Acorn Princess bounces up and strikes down on two HYDRA soliders using her wrist energy blades. Before more soliders could swarm them, a spinning vibranium shield smacks them all in the face before it flies back to Captain America's hand.

"Give it to them!" Captain America orders some young heroes like Blake and Blaze.

"Yes, sir!" Blake responded. Big lifts up his fellow cats and throws them at more HYDRA soliders to kick in the face. Hummingbird and Cream fly through the air to watch a grinning Nora spins her hammer on a walking mech, smacking it very far to a nearby mountain. With one arm, Scarlet Spider throws Pyrrha at more enemies. Through the air, the redhead blasts and strikes down her foes. She bounces off another in the crowd back to Scarlet, who quickly zipped in and grabbed her so they could double-team the squad easily.

"Give up now and save on an 100% butt-whopping!" Spider-Man swings over the bullet fire with Palutena. The light goddess summons spheres of light the webhead stylishly rains down before surrounding himself in an explosive web sphere Palutena smacks it down with her staff, causing an explosion of webbing that webs up the morons caught in the explosion.

"Is that all? I was hoping more of a fight!" Spidey cockily asked.

"This is FAR from over," Sally replied, "More will be coming their way if we don't disable their security and those cannons!"

"Your team's got that covered! I'll lead a team to the armory and destroy those Hulkbusters!" Cap said.

"Leaving my group for some alone time with Mandarin!" Iron Man said.

"Let's move, people! We don't have all day!" Cap makes a gesture with his hand and gets everyone moving throughout the base with their own assignments.

BGM End

With Sally's Team…

BGM-Sonic Forces OST-Network Terminal

Sally leads a large portion of the heroes that are too many to list to the security facility to shut it down for more military soliders to help with the fight. Most of the group utilizes grind rails to reach their objective, switching from rail to rail to avoid the armored trains. Along the way, the giant HYDRA cannons on the icy mountains are blowing up any enemy ship that drops on radar.

"Falcon! Take your fliers to destroy those cannons!" Sally ordered the winged Avenger.

"Got it!" Falcon complies, leading the Pits, Palutena, and Bunnie to the cannons.

"Don't get in my way!" Dark Pit rudely told his counterpart.

"Don't get in MY way!" Pit retorted.

The cannons immediately take fire on the fliers the moment they appeared on radar. Everyone swerves away from the large cannonballs aimed at them and begin their counterattack. Falcon flies around one while avoiding its fire, launching hard-light talons that disables the cannons. The Pits uses their own type of cannons to blow up a few more on their own. Bunnie blasts two with her lasers while Palutena blows up one with a Mega Laser.

"Most of the cannons are destroyed. Did you guys disable the security system?" Falcon asked Sally while flying away from another cannon shot.

Inside Security Facility

"Not yet! Kinda have our hands full!" Sally replies, jumping away from one of the three green-colored Hulkbusters HYDRA has protecting the computer room along with an army of HYDRA soliders. "We need to get to that computer!"

"Cover me!" Tails said as he plans to disable the security.

"Copy that!" Nora runs up and smacks her charged-up hammer on a Hulkbuster. The look on her face when she notices the walking mech didn't budge at all from the full force of her attack. She gets slammed to the ground and growls, "These things are tough!"

"What did you expect? They're designed to take on the Hulk!" Yang replies, working with Rotor to assault a Hulkbuster and barely make a dent.

"Which never works, as evident!" Hawkeye fires an explosive arrow at a specific weakspot on a Hulkbuster's arm, blowing it apart. "See? A toddler could beat these things!" He joked.

"I don't think so, Mr. Hawkeye!" Cream remarks, flying away from another Hulkbuster's repulsors.

Axl, Ren, and Blake blast their bullets on one Hulkbuster. Blaze, Big, and Lucina leap away from another's missile barrage. As Scarlet Spider stabs one's helmet and tries to pry it open, Tails and Sally were able to make it to the computer, but a couple more HYDRA soliders blocked them. The two Freedom Fighters prepared to fight but it seemed unneeded after Hummingbird telepathically scared the soliders away from the computer.

"Good job, Hummingbird! Do your thing, Tails!" Sally said to the genius fox.

It only took less than 15 seconds before Tails disable HYDRA Island's entire security. With the defensives down, it made it easier for more military forces to enter the battlefield for round two.

Sally touches her ear comm to talk to Captain America, "Captain! Security's down! How's it going at the armory?"

BGM End

With Captain America's Team…

HYDRA Island, Hulkbuster Armory

BGM-Sonic Heroes OST-Bullet Station

Standing on a moving train acting as an on-rails armory, filled with inactive Hulkbusters, Captain America blocked a sword strike with his unbreakable shield. "Was almost done until trouble showed up!" He replied to Sally before leaping back from another strike from the lovely Madame HYDRA. He is quickly rejoined with Knuckles, Ms. Marvel, Pyrrha, and Antoine so they could assist him taking on Viper.

"End of the line, Viper! Make this easier on yourself!" Steve warned the deadly Madame.

"You cannot hope to stop me, Rogers!" Viper said, soon joined by more of her men.

"Maybe not alone he can't!" Pyrrha remarked, flaunting her blade to her side.

"Let's make this quick, team!" Cap commanded.

"Lead the way, Captain!" Antoine said.

"Fire!" Viper commands her force to fire on the heroes. The team hides behind Cap's shield for Pyrrha to use her Semblance and slightly shift HYDRA's guns 90 degrees. Ms. Marvel jumps up and enlarges her fist, slamming it on top of Viper's men. One of the soliders avoided the attack and started piloting one of the remaining Hulkbuster units. The mech throws a fist at Knuckles, who catches it. Knuckles struggles to hold the arm for very long, so he quickly throws it aside and jumps to the helmet. He repeatedly punches the head before it was weak enough to rip apart and reveal its pilot.

"Fun's over!" Knuckles grabs the pilot and throws him out before demolishing the Hulkbuster.

Meanwhile, as the train enters a tunnel, Viper swings her blade on Antoine. The Freedom Fighting swordsman leaps back in time and jumps forward to continue clashing blades with the HYDRA mistress. "Impressive, for someone so small." She starts taunting him as she begins to overwhelm his blade.

"I could use ze help!" Antoine requested, sounding struggled.

Pyrrha jumps in and spin kicks Viper in the face, knocking her backwards and saving 'Twain. The skilled Huntress switches to her rifle and fires on Viper. Viper does some acrobatic flips, avoiding Pyrrha's shots. She whips out her own gun and shoots Pyrrha, but thanks to her Aura, the damage wasn't too severe. Still hurts though.

Viper was immediately hit by Cap's thrown shield. It returns to his hand in the air as he slams it down on Viper, but missed. Viper almost kicks Cap off the train but he quickly regained his footing. As she rushes in with her sword for the kill, it suddenly moved to another direction thanks to Pyrrha's sly manipulation with her Semblance, followed by Ms. Marvel punching her. This gave Cap the chance to deliver the final blow that knocks out Viper for good.

"Hail the immortal HYDRA…" Viper lowly spoke before falling unconscious.

"Viper's down!" Cap informed the team.

"So are the rest of the Hulkbusters!" Knuckles added after he finished destroying the remaining units in the moving armory.

Cap touches his ear comm to get in contact with Iron Man, "Iron Man! How close are you to Mandarin?"

'Almost there, Cap…' Iron Man started talking.

HYDRA Island, En Route to Mandarin's Throne Room

"Just taking time to say hello to his guards." Iron Man quipped. The armored Avenger leads Spider-Man, Sonic, Ruby, Weiss, Jaune, and Amy to Mandarin's throne room. Closing in, they fight more of his HYDRA henchmen but they're clearly outmatched by their power.

'We're still mopping up HYDRA agents outside the base, so you're on your own in there.' Fury said.

"I'm glad. Your guys would've gotten in the way." Tony said to annoy the Director as he finishes up the remaining HYDRA soliders.

BGM End

"It's getting creepy around here!" Jaune said as they take the time to walk up steps.

Weiss shivers from the coldness, "Not to mention colder!"

"Heh. I guess you would know." Spidey joked, angering the heated Ice Queen.

"Grr…for the last time…Stop calling me ICE QUEEN!" Weiss loudly retorted.

"Well that IS your superhero name remember…. Ice Queen?" Sonic slyly quipped, annoying Weiss once more as they continue up the steps.

"REGARDLESS, we need to hurry and stop Mandarin. He's going to pay for stealing from my dad's company." Weiss said.

"Don't worry. We got this in the snow." Spidey quipped.

"So chili out, okay Elisa?" Sonic joked.

Weiss tiredly groans as she holds onto her aching head from all their jokes, "Ugggh…Dealing with you two is exhausting."

"Maybe you should go cool off somewhere…" Sonic joked.

"Uggggh…"

Mandarin's Throne Room

It was a long journey but at last, Iron Man's team has breached to the Mandarin's outside throne room. The heroes arrived to see Mandarin sitting on his throne but he looks a little different compared to his last few encounters with his nemesis, Iron Man, and the other heroes. The Mandarin now wears a complete, badass-looking gold and black armor that wears all ten Makluan Rings.

"Who dares enter my throne room?" The Mandarin asked with a deeper, more unrecognizable voice, presumably because of his new armor filtering it.

"Did you use my tech and the ISO-Dust just to make yourself a new set of duds? If you asked nicely, I would've made you one infants could control." Iron Man joked, noting Mandarin's new armor was made using his tech and powered by the Schnees Company's ISO-Dusts.

"Mandarin! You are not going to get away with this!" Weiss promised.

"Come down here so we can kick you out of that armor!" Sonic taunted.

BGM-Mega Man X7 OST-Our Blood Boils vs. Sigma 1st

"If you are in such a hurry to die, I'll be happy to oblige." Mandarin slowly stands up from his throne. His rings on his fingers begins to glow to serve as a warning to get the heroes pumped up for a showdown. "Ten rings. A thousand ways to die. Give me a good fight, Stark. Like you always do."

"Okay." Stark launches micro-missiles from his back that flies right on Mandarin, who just stands there and takes them like a champ. The explosion did nothing thanks to Mandarin's new armor. A blast from his Impact Beam forces the heroes to move and get on the offensive.

"I'm even more powerful than I was before! Thanks to the ISO-Dust powering this armor, none will stop me when I control this world!" Mandarin continues blasting the heroes from a safe distance, making it very hard to get up close and personal with him. He uses his Flame-Blast Ring to unleash two vortexes made of flames that blows away the likes of Ruby, Weiss, and Jaune, the latter taking the least amount of damage thanks to his abnormally reserves amount of Aura, though not to the amount of Spider-Man's near limitless Aura.

Speaking of Spider-Man, he found an opening through Mandarin's defensives and swing-kicked his head. "Does ten rings means you've been married ten times and was divorced ten times? How do you keep checking out? Was it the hair? It was probably the hair." He joked.

Mandarin snarls and grabs Peter by the throat. He was quickly bombarded by Iron Man flying above him firing his repulsor cannons from his wrists, thus freeing Spider-Man in the process. The Chinese warlord retaliates against his hated foe, giving Sonic some room to attack and knock him through his throne, destroying it.

"Heh. Looking forward kicking your butt again." Sonic grinned, recalling his last encounter with Mandarin back in Chrom's world.

"You won't be so lucky this time, little rodent!" Mandarin manipulates gravity using his White Light Ring and grabs Sonic with a palm of his hand, then throws him at Amy. The two hedgehogs shake their heads and agrees it's time for a team-up attack. Simply, Sonic curls up to a ball for Amy to smack him very hard right on Mandarin. The warlord was able to smack Sonic away once again. He was about to use another ring until Spidey webbed it up.

"Has anyone ever told you those rings make you look feminine?" Spidey joked, throwing a few punches on bad guy. He throws a quick kick before dodging Mandarin's blasts for Weiss to ice slash his armor. She forms a glyph and invokes the Daggers of Daveroth that barely scratches his armor.

"Bah!" Mandarin summons a vortex using the Vortex Beam Ring to distract Weiss for a punch, sending her flying until Ruby rescues her.

"You alright?" She asked her partner.

"Yeah." Weiss nodded.

As the others assault Mandarin with limited success getting a powerful shot, Ruby and Weiss use one of their team-up moves. "Ice Flower!" Ruby shouts. Weiss uses her glyphs to encase Ruby's sniper bullets in ice. Some of the shots were able to touch Mandarin, instantly freezing his arms and legs.

"Here I come!" Iron Man leaps in with an energy hammer for a hand and was able to land a critical blow on Mandarin before he freed himself. His attack didn't show any visible damage to the armor but he could tell Mandarin can't keep this up. "Save time, give up!" He told his foe.

Mandarin lets out a furious roar as his body is surrounded by a green aura, presumably thanks to the ISO-Dust. He glares at Stark and says, "Never", before unleashing a powerful lightning bolt from the sky using his Electro-Blast Ring. The lightning bolt was powerful enough to bypass Iron Man's shields and electrocute his armor, causing the man inside to scream in pain.

"Iron Man!" Ruby shouted.

As Iron Man will take some time to reboot, Sonic and Jaune protect him by taking a strike at Mandarin, but when they did, he vanished in smoke. "An illusion?" Sonic muttered. The heroes find themselves surrounded and attacked by a dozen Mandarins, thanks to the power of his Mento-Intesifier Ring.

"Which is which?!" Amy asks while destroying a fake.

"The one on your left!" Spidey replies, using his Spider-Sense to detect the real Mandarin.

Amy yells out a war-cry as she clobbers the real Mandarin with her hammer, "Impossible! How did you know that was me?!"

"I am experienced in the field of illusions." Spidey quipped, thanking his countless battles against Mysterio that gave him a knack in fighting illusions. He ties him up in webbing but they were quickly burned, but it was enough to allow Ruby and Jaune to strike the villain. Sonic kicked his head while Weiss throws fireball barrage. Mandarin absorbs the fireballs and combines his flame ring with his ice ring to unleash a devastating mixture of the two. The elemental blast hits Spidey, Weiss, and Sonic. Ruby and Amy barely dodged in time and Jaune blocks it with his shield, but the force of the blast was enough to fly him off his feet.

In a nick of time, Iron Man's armor has completely rebooted. He slowly stands up groggy, "Ugggh…You kids doing alright?"

"I don't think so..." Jaune weakly replies as he gets up.

"Tony, what else can that new armor do?" Sonic asked while rubbing his head.

"Watch and be amazed." Iron Man ejects multiple massive magnetically levitating cannons beside him called his "Cluster Cannons". He uses these to fire a gigantic proton beam that was powerful enough to blast through Mandarin's defensives and send him flying down his throne room. "You picked the wrong day to mess with me!" He told Mandarin.

"That looks to have weakened him!" Ruby noticed.

"Keep up the pressure!" Spidey said.

"I will not be beaten like this!" Mandarin fires his most destructive beam using his Disintegration Beam Ring. It was aimed at Sonic who runs towards him.

Lucky for him, he was caught by Spidey's webline and was thrown at the Mandarin. The Rose sisters assaults Mandarin while avoiding his attacks.

"Let's finish him off, full power!" Iron Man said to Weiss.

"Jaune, give me a little boost!" She said to Team JNPR's leader.

"Yeah!" Jaune nods. Iron Man charges up a Unibeam, but a normal one won't be enough to defeat Mandarin. So in this case, Weiss forms a glyph in front of him to double his attack. This was further doubled after Jaune places his hand on her shoulder and uses his Semblance to amplify Weiss's Aura and power.

"Any time!" Spidey hurries up the three to finish this while everyone else distracts Mandarin for the finishing blow.

"Hey Mandarin!" Stark calls him out, getting his shocked attention of the charged-up Unibeam.

"Say cheese!" Weiss said.

Iron Man fires a large Unibeam through Weiss's powered-up glyph which forms an even bigger beam. Spidey kicks Mandarin into the range of fire and watches him get instantly overpowered by the combo attack, destroying a part of the throne room in the process.

BGM End

The armor took the full force of the beam but it had left Mandarin exhausted. The HYDRA leader falls down in defeat. The battle was intense, but in the end, the heroes came out on top, crushing HYDRA for good. At least for a good while anyways.

Cap's team and Sally's team finally caught up with Iron Man's to see they have won and defeated the Mandarin. "You guys defeated the Mandarin!" Ms. Marvel said happily, taking out her phone to get a quick snap of the defeated warlord.

"Great, so…now can we go home?" Scarlet Spider asked.

Sally contacts Director Fury to inform him the mission was a success, "Director Fury, this is Sally Acorn. The Mandarin is down. We need a cleanup crew and evac team on my location. Over."

"Someone make sure Mandarin doesn't have any more surprise goons coming." Iron Man requested.

Spidey takes a quick scan of the area using his Spider-Sense to pick up nothing, "Nope. Think we're good."

Unaware to all the heroes, the Mandarin's rings silently move on their own. They fly off of his fingers to parts unknown. Iron Man seemed to sensed something was amiss that got Cap's attention.

"What is it?" He asked.

"I'm not sure. I just had the oddest reading." Stark replied.

"You took a lot of hits. You might be glitchy." Ruby said.

'No. I sensed something too. Weird.' Nicole speaks from Sally's handheld device.

"What was that?" Tony wondered, but try as he might, neither he nor Nicole could determine what they detected.

Latverion, Doom's Castle

Dr. Doom stands on his balcony to await his new gifts: Ten highly advanced Makluan Rings that fly to his hand. He walks back inside to meet up with Dr. Octopus and hands him the Makluan Rings, "Here."

Octavius laughs, "Excellent. Thank you, Doom. Now I can begin building new armor for my new Sinister Six based off the Makluan Rings' technology."

"Make it quick. And contact Cinder on the update of the Exo Stones." Doom coldly ordered.

"As you wish." Octavius walks away, leaving Doom to walk around by his lonesome.

The doctor knows he can't delay the inevitable much longer. Thanos is coming. He can feel it in his heart. The reason for the Genesis Wave to fuse their universes wasn't just to make it easier to conquer it all in one swoop, but to keep Thanos at bay in space, giving themselves enough time to prepare an army to take on both Thanos and the unified heroes for a war that'll soon envelop the planet. Doom walks past Ock's lab as he begins construction of new Makluan Armor for his new Sinister Six Hazel is currently recruiting for him. Doom then walks past by Eggman's lab. The egg scientist is in the middle of constructing six new E-100 robots that'll definitely be useful during the coming days. And while Watts builds a new tail for Tyrian, Doom checks up what Salem's doing. He goes to another balcony to get a good look what the Dark Mistress is up to outside. Using her powers, Salem creates dozens of Beringel Grimm. Three different types: A normal Beringel that now sprouts wings. A Symbiote variant with wings. And a Dark Gaia variant with wings. All which lets out a disturbing roar to the night sky.

An army is growing for the Masters of Evil, but even Doom knows it won't be enough to stand a chance against Thanos and his galactic army. His best chance in winning this upcoming war is by finding the other six Exo Stones scattered across the unified world. Hopefully Cinder won't mess this up, otherwise humanity's fate is almost sealed.

Doom continues staring at Salem's growing army of Grimm, not noticing someone in the shadows watching him. Some weird alien in black and yellow skin with no eyes has been watching him and the Masters of Evil for some time now. A being called an Outrider.

"Hm?" Doom turns around and wonders if somebody was watching him. He uses all kinds of highly advanced vision to make sure and found nothing. Still, even though his magic and tech didn't find anyone, his gut tells him different. Telling him they are running out of time.

Titan

The Outrider returns to a large moon in another corner of the galaxy. This satellite's environment is shown to be in ruins after it was annihilated by nuclear devices by some 'Mad Titan'. The alien returns to a wasteland where a single throne remains, and his master sits on top of it.

He kneels before his master hidden in the shadows, "Master. Your Star Stone is located on the human world. The Exo Stones, scattered across the planet. Two, in the hands of the human known as Victor von Doom. His allies seem prepared for us. The other earthlings, the heroes, seem completely unaware."

"You have served your purpose. Begone." His master then kills him without remorse. Without hesitation. Without care, he just did. The titan smiles, "Earth. I have finally found you in this new cosmos. No more hiding," He stands up from his throne out of the shadows, showing his ugly purple chin and shiny metallic golden armor. "It is time for you to burn and reclaim my prize." The Mad Titan, Thanos, is now ready to begin the invasion of the Unified World.

KFX Here: That's it for Volume 1, folks. Next up? Almost two years has this series been going. It's all been leading to this. Volume 2 will contain the biggest fights. The most out-of-this world action. Intense moments and twists you wouldn't expect. The biggest war of the entire multiverse is about to start next in Volume 2. The "Exo War" Arc. An arc so big it'll contain everyone who has appeared in the series and even some newcomers. Everyone except Street Fighter. Sorry.

Question of the Chapter: What was your favorite chapter in Volume 1? Also, what do you want to see happen in Volume 2?