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The Echo of Destiny
Chapter 21: Unity part 1
Xavier was unconscious and Magneto had collapsed in Pietro's arms. The return of Onslaught had a telepathic backlash on the both of them and every other mutant in the army of Earth was incapacitated. There was a moment when they were fully conscious, before they suddenly put their hands to their heads and fell to the floor.
"Oh shit, what happened to the X-men?" Crimson Dynamo asked as Magik and Colossus were incapacitated with insects crowding around them.
Red Guardian threw his shield into the crowd of insects, throwing them away from the two mutants. Quicksilver soon fell unconscious and Speed soon after. Cannonball was flying in midair before he blacked out. Iron Man suddenly swooped in, catching the young man.
"Fury, talk to me, what's happening?" Tony asked.
"We've got reports that every mutant is falling unconscious…oh no, the young X-men team were the only team in Brazil" Fury said.
Two scorpion mechs stood over the unconscious young X-men, raising their claws as they prepared to finish the teens off. Suddenly, Aeon flew in, wearing a black and grey version of his armour with glowing red blades. He flew at impressive speeds, cutting the Scorpions mechs to pieces, his flaming blades preventing the nanobots inside the machines from regenerating. In a flash of red light he stopped in between the young mutants, his arm blades shattering and his armour returning to its red and gold colour. Aeon rubbed the bridge of his helmet, looking up at the sky.
In space, Onslaught was currently flying straight through the Nova Corps towards earth. One of the members was even unfortunate enough to be eaten by the berserk creature.
"He will go to the earth and consume any mutant that he encounters, the mutants will double his power and eventually when he has consumed every last one of them his hunger will continue to grow until he consumes every last super human being on the planet, then he will simply disappear" Karabai explained as the Galactic heroes began to gather around him.
Starlord fired his guns at Karabai, who laughed as the bullets bounced off his armour. He fired a blast at Nova, who flew to the left to dodge it. Quasar and Phyla flew at Karabai, the latter swinging her sword downwards. But Karabai batted the blade aside with his finger then chopped Phyla across the neck, and threw the palm of his hand into Quasar's face. Noh-Varr, Darkhawk and Nova fired energy blasts at Karabai, who countered with a bigger blast.
"You see, this is the power that Karabai wields" Gladiator said.
Xander grinded his teeth together before flying to aid his teammates. Ms Marvel flew at Karabai from behind, but the warlord grabbed her throat. Then he threw her into Adam Warlock and fired beams from his eyes, beheading two Corp members. Gamora swung her sword down at Karabai, who caught the blade between his two fingers.
"The most dangerous woman in the universe and yet there are women who have more strength than you…Gamora daughter of Thanos, you are not worthy!" Karabai whispered.
He suddenly snapped the blade then tore his hand through Gamora's chest. The woman coughed and stared at Karabai in shock before the alien leader ripped out her heart. Each one of the Galactic heroes widened their eyes in horror as Karabai pushed the body aside and crushed the heart with a simple squeeze of his hand.
"Let us see, whether any of you are worthy of REMAMBRANCE!!!!" Karabai yelled as he flew forward.
Noh-Varr yelled as Karabai slammed his knee into the Kree's stomach. Then he grabbed his head and threw him into Nova, sending the two flying into one of the ships. Karabai fired two blasts from his hands, hitting Carol and Darkhawk in the chest. Photon tried to blast Karabai from behind, but his cape acted as a shield of sorts. He grabbed Photon by the neck and threw her into Quasar's arms. Drax threw a volley of knives at Karabai, who easily blocked the projectiles.
"Drax the Destroyer, you are not WORTHY!!!" Karabai yelled, flying at Drax.
Drax slashed at Karabai, but the blade shattered upon contact with his skin. Then Karabai grabbed him by his neck and lifted him over his shoulder. Rocket Racoon and Starlord fired at Karabai, who tightened his grip on Drax's neck.
"GET IN CLOSE! STOP HIM!!!" Xander yelled, flying as fast as he could at Karabai.
'Still they fight on' Gladiator thought, looking at the battle in awe.
"NOOOO!!!!" Phyla yelled as Karabai snapped Drax's neck.
Xander fired another blast at Karabai with no effect. The warlord then threw an energy blade at Xander, cutting off his right leg. He yelled in agony as his blood flew through space. Phyla yelled as she flew at Karabai, swinging her sword downwards. But Karabai suddenly disappeared, reappearing behind Phyla. But she span round, trying to cut Karabai across the chest. He simply leaned backwards to dodge the blade then backhanded Darkhawk.
"Not only gateway creation but teleportation as well, this mans power has no limit" Mantis said.
"We need a plan!" Nova said.
"No shit!" Racoon said.
"I'LL NEVER GIVE UP!!!" Xander yelled.
Karabai's soldiers were already beginning to land in Wakanda, and with no Gentle or Storm to protect them; the warriors of Wakanda and Shuri were caught in a desperate Melee. Sophia was also busy nursing Klara, Molly and Laurie, while Patrick piloted the jet.
"Damn, this guy seems to have a plan for every thing we throw at him" Patrick said. "My satellite uplink to S.H.I.E.L.D. has been cut, we've lost our communications"
"No, we still have short wave radio links" Sophia said.
On the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier
"EVERYONE BRACE FOR EVASIVE MANOUVRES!!!" Driver yelled.
Every agent on the Helicarrier held on to anything they could find as Driver barrel rolled the carrier, dodging a devastating blast fired by Meijin's ship. The Carrier flew in between two alien vessels then fired its cannons, blowing apart the two ships.
"GOOD JOB DRIVER! ALL METAHUMANS GET OUTSIDE AND START KICKING ASS!!!" Fury yelled.
Mockingbird, Spider-man, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Bucky ran outside and braced themselves as pods flew towards the carrier. She-Hulk jumped from capital ship to capital ship, landing on a Scorpion mech that had just been launched at the Helicarrier. She slammed her fist into the robot, crushing its head then jumping to aid the other heroes as they fought the Elite Guards. Luke Cage tried to punch one of the elites in the head, but the nimble fighter jumped behind him and slashed him across the back. Mockingbird kicked one of the Elite Guards but was knocked back when she blocked his countering slash. The elite Guard then jumped into the air, ready to finish her off. But an arrow flew into his eye; the guard pulled the arrow out of his eye, but was then shot with several more arrows.
"Guess whose back!" Clint growled, wearing his Hawkeye costume with quivers of arrows on his back and waist.
"Now that moment would really improve sales!" Deadpool giggled.
"Unfortunately we aren't going to see it" Driver sighed.
"What the hell are you two talking about?" Dugan asked with a grunt.
Bucky fired a full clip of bullets into an Elite Guard and watched as Spider-man desperately tried to dodge another's slashes. The Elite Guard cut him across the shoulder, but Jessica Jones flew in and punch the guard across the head. She-Hulk swung her fists at the Elite Guards. They easily managed to dodge her strikes; one even shocked her by slashing her across the cheek. The Elite Guards looked at the blood on their blades for a moment before wings suddenly burst out of their backs.
"We've collected suitable samples" They all said before they flew off.
The Avengers then looked up and grinded their teeth together as Meijin floated towards them.
"I think its time we were rid of your interference" The General said before he flew into battle.
Ink was confused, but he didn't really have time to show that confusion as he fought through an army of alien grunts. For a moment he had been fighting alongside Sunspot, but the latter suddenly fell unconscious. Fury later told him on the radio that all of the mutants in their ranks were falling unconscious. Even people born from super powered beings like Trauma, Hulkling and Spider-man's daughter had fallen asleep. Ink punched and kicked his way through the grunts, desperately trying to reach and protect his other teammates. When the enemies began to run away, Ink widened his eyes in shock. Onslaught currently stood before him, Madrox, the real Madrox was impaled between his claws and Strong Guy was currently having his intestines consumed by the armoured creature.
"Oh god…YOU ANIMAL!!!" Ink yelled, flying at Onslaught.
Strong Guy was a good friend and teammate; people often called him nice guy. Madrox despite his faults was also a good man, when push came to shove he knew what the right thing to do was. Siryn was pregnant with his child, but now he'd never have a chance to meet his son. Ink slammed his fist into Onslaught's head. But the punch had no effect, and Onslaught merely punched the Young X-man aside. Onslaught then threw Madrox down his throat and moaned in pleasure. Tears ran down Ink eyes as Onslaught suddenly jumped into the air. Luckily he hadn't found Sunspot or M, but quite frankly two deaths was more than Ink could take.
Onslaught landed on Utopia, the worst place he could possibly be. Because the 250 or so remaining mutants were currently hiding and unprotected on that little island. It would be an all you could eat buffet for the creature. On the Helicarrier, James examined the creature, putting a hand to his chin as he used a robotic fly to analyse the creature's structure.
"This thing, it's gotten bigger" James said in shock.
"We need to get there quick before it commits genocide!" O'Grady said.
"Wait, you're actually prepared to fight against that thing?" James asked.
Onslaught walked towards the dome the mutant civilians were contained in. Licking its lips, Onslaught grabbed the roof and tore it off.
"NO!!"
Aeon suddenly landed on the beast's head, slamming his flaming fists against its armour. Onslaught swung around, trying to throw the armoured hero off.
"Mr Reilly, I'll help" Cloud 9 said.
"Just get the mutants as far away from here as you can" Aeon cried out as Onslaught grabbed him.
He felt the creature's claws cut his arm, but he couldn't give up, he needed to keep Onslaught distracted. Abby closed her eyes and began to concentrate hard. First she lifted up Quicksilver, Tommy and Magneto. Then one by one she began to lift the inhabitants of the dome into the air. Onslaught slammed Aeon into the ground and tried to stomp on him. But Aeon jumped to the left then jumped at Onslaught, slamming his flaming fist into the creature's mouth. It stepped back, growling before it roared. Aeon and Abby grabbed their heads as they felt something attack their minds. The people that Abby was trying to lift up suddenly fell to the floor, three landing near Onslaught.
"NO!!" Aeon yelled, running forward.
Onslaught slapped the armoured warrior aside and turned towards the fallen mutants. Aeon grinded his teeth together as he got up off the floor. He then widened his eyes as Cloud 9 flew at Onslaught, firing a pistol with no effect on the creature. Onslaught smacked cloud 9 off her cloud and into a wall. Aeon looked at the body and lowered his head for her neck was broken. With a yell he slammed his shoulder into the creature, knocking it over and through a watchtower. In a bunker, Reed and Hank lowered their heads as they witnessed Abby's death. The Initiative had turned her into a cold person, but in the end she chose to die as a hero with her mask off.
"What do we know about this thing besides the fact that it can wipe us all out?" Hank asked.
"There's something I never bought up, a few months ago I detected something in the Negative Zone, and then all of a sudden it just disappeared, it might have been Onslaught…apparently the mutant energies from M-day reformed him…but at the time I thought I was hallucinating but now I realise, I really did see Onslaught in the negative zone, the last thing we saw in space before our satellites were destroyed was Karabai creating a gateway, he's been preparing for an attack on Earth for months, he knew what Onslaught did last time and now he's stripped the creature of all its reasoning" Reed explained.
"Before it was insane, now it's feral and very hungry" Hank summarised.
"Damn it, what are we going to do now?" Reed asked, slamming his hands against the wall.
Aeon punched at Onslaught's leg, and then flipped back to avoid a crushing claw. Onslaught grabbed Aeon's leg and threw him into the air. Aeon changed hi gauntlet into a shield and slammed into Onslaught's face, cutting his gums. Spinning across the floor, Aeon then threw two giant kite shields at the creatures. They rebounded off of Onslaught's armour. But Aeon fired his red eye beams into the left shield, deflecting the beam into Onslaught's face. Onslaught suddenly ran forward, bringing its jaws towards Aeon. But Aeon pushed the top of Onslaught's mouth and jaw, preventing him from biting down. Onslaught pushed Aeon across the floor, but despite his opponents superior strength Aeon still fought on.
"We need people over there now!" James said.
"We don't have any men in that area, we're too spread out across the world" Dugan said.
"What about Sentry, he can get there fast"
"No one can get there fast enough…damn we lost out visual!" Fury growled.
"He'll just have to make do on his own" Driver sighed.
Aeon yelled as Onslaught pushed him against one of the watchtowers.
"I WONT GIVE UP! I WONT LET YOU KILL ANYMORE PEOPLE!!!" Aeon yelled. But Onslaught lifted him off the ground then punched him straight through the watchtower.
Aeon slid across the floor then yelled in agony as Onslaught landed on him, pinning him to the ground with his knees. Onslaught roared, covering Aeon in spit.
"Damn you, I wont let you get away with it…I wont stop fighting!!" Aeon growled, struggling underneath Onslaught's weight.
It opened its mouth and bought it towards Aeon's head. Suddenly an optic blast slammed into its side and knocked Onslaught into the wall. Aeon rolled away from Onslaught and looked towards where the blast came from.
"We lost out connection, but that beam looked like one of Summers" Reed said, clicking a few buttons in order to get the robots connection back.
"You know Stretcho that wont do any good since the little camera thing was squashed" Thing said.
"It couldn't be…but why would he come back?" Hank wondered.
"Whom are you talking about?" Reed asked.
A smile spread across James's face as he sensed who had aided Aeon. Aeon himself got up off the floor and smiled. He didn't have a costume on anymore, now he wore a simple pair of jeans and a shirt. Standing on the edge of Utopia, his copied wings spread out and eyes' glowing was Mimic. Reaching into his pocket, he removed a set of pills and Aeon guessed correctly that they weren't the ones that Osborn prescribed. He popped two of the pills into his mouth then crushed the bottle. Sweat ran down Calvin's face as he clutched his sides.
"NO!!" Aeon yelled as Onslaught ran at Mimic.
He jumped in the creature's way, taking a claw swipe for his friend. Aeon clutched his side for a moment before slamming his shield into Onslaught's jaw.
"It's a good thing you came here Onslaught, because you've given me a good chance to redeem myself without dying…I bet your wondering why I'm still awake? I'm not a mutant, I'm just a stupid kid who walked in on his father and wants to save his best friend" Calvin growled as the MGH began to take effect. "With my powers increased I can now temporarily copy the abilities of EVERY SINGLE MUTANT IN UTOPIA!!!!!" He roared.
Aeon looked to Mimic in shock, his friend's left arm was now diamond with Ice claws on his wrists while his right was alit with flames, with the shoulder covered in brown fur. Scales ran across his back, while a metallic exoskeleton covered his spine, which stretched into a metal bone tail. Grey fur covered his chest as his blonde hair grew longer and a pair of horns burst out of his forehead. Two pore pairs of wings stretched out of his back, one bat like and the other of metal. In between his two horns, another eye appeared while a white streak appeared across his hair. He let out a roar that lifted Utopia into the air.
"UNITY IS THE ULTIMATE POWER!!!"
Aeon nodded his head and ran to Mimic's side. They stood together as Onslaught stood up and roared at them both. Both friends were together and ready to fight.
Next Chapter 22: Unity Part 2
Next time we find out why Xander is so special!