Prologue: What if a Tales of Suspense
(Comic Cover: Iron Man Season One)
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"…There are worlds beyond even those which exist in this reality and the next... Worlds not of energy and matter, but of thought and mind…"
--Uatu (Earth-616)
BGM-Fantastic Four John Ottman OST-Nine Hours
The scene opens up to the infamous black vacuum of space where a solar system can see, in particular, the fifth-largest planet third down from the sun is a small blue and green planet called Earth with only 4.5 present in landmass while the rest is covered by water. However, we're forced on the planet's natural orbiting moon as we see a small being standing on the very surface of the moon as they are looking at the planet.
The being appears to be a bald man with pupil-less but glowing eyes that's wearing a white tunic with a long purple fabric cross sideways across their chest with the same color cape and large open collars hanging behind him. He also wears matching long purple footwears and gloves, as lastly an amulet with a symbol of a very ancient order is attached in front of the fabric.
"I am Uatu, The Watcher and I have been assigned much like my brothers and sisters to observing and cataloging events of cosmic significance that transpired throughout the galaxies. However, in a particular solar system on a planet that the dominant species called humanity on a planet they call earth, many events and outcomes have shaped the entire universe on numerous occasions. Because of this, I put much of my force on this planet while observing all other stars throughout the Galaxy, you may already know the history that transpired of the being humanity called 'superhuman' and their never-ending fight between the forces of good and evil that took place." The being known as Uatu explains and introduces to an unspoken audience about the nature and purpose in the omniverse.
"But what if…? What if things had happened differently? What if this single individual had chosen a slightly different path than what fate had attended? What if someone else was chosen to wield the great powers or taken over a legacy mantle instead of the original person? What if events and civilization roles have played out differently or altered then what it was destined to be? Some of these differences are grand and some are minute." The Watcher started as a wave with his hands and the aid of his vast cosmic powers, he began showing images of alternative dimensions and time streams of possible universes that could have come to be.
"In one reality; What If Laufey, King of the Frost Giants, has managed to kill Odin, The All-Father himself in their final battle in Jotunheim and has taken Thor to raise as own instead of Loki?" The watcher shows blue skin and glowing red eyes Thor wearing some animal furs and wearing an ice hammer leading an army of Frost Giants that's marching past him as a couple stayed standing behind the Prince of Jotunheim.
"In another; What If the mantle of Captain American was created much early than War World II, what if it was created during the time of the first America Civil War?" The watcher then shows a Captain American wearing a union wool sack jacket, white union trousers, and brownish-red leggings. Most notably on his head, he wears a blue mask and Native American headdress, he holds a brass-like shield with a red circle in the middle and a white tribal eagle in the center of the shield. He is shown standing and waving in front of thousands of American people with president Abe Lincoln standing beside him.
"Or in one such reality; What If a team of superheroes known as the Fantastic Four was granted different powers when they were first exposed to the cosmic rays that change them?" The watcher lastly shows a rocket ship that crashed land in a remote forest and emerges from the wreckage are; Ben Grimm has grown dragon-like wings on his back became Dragonfly, Reed Richards lost everything but his human brain but was gifted with psychic abilities to become Big Brain, Johnny Storm entire body was transmuted into half-machine became Mandroid, lastly, Sue Storm has body and limbs to scratch like elastic to become Ultra-Woman.
The watcher observed these three realities for a moment before they started to fade until they completely disappeared. "Nevertheless, I will now show you one of these alternative time streams where events have played out differently. I will guide you through the prison of endless possibilities and ponder the face of the unknown of this vast multiverse…" The Watcher proclaimed as he used slightly more of his power to show the universe that he intended to show towards an unknown audience as everything faded toa glowing white.
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Earth-9535
Our story begins on a planet detonated as Earth-9535, where two individuals across the planet earth are tethered by fate and destiny for this unavoidable encounter.
BGM-Marvel Ultimate Alliance OST-Menu
The first is located in an isolated kingdom in the Eastern European Country of the Banat region in Europe. A small nation is known as Latveria with its ruler infamously known throughout the world as Dr. Victor Von Doom, better known as Doctor Doom.
The second is located in an American city called Los Angeles in the county called California, where a grand opening celebration of the Sage Hill Mall was being held. Previously this mall was a battleground between an evil organization called A.I.M. and a terrorized organization called Hydra, but they were stopped and the mall was restored by "Tony" Anthony Edwards Stark secretly known as armor avenger Iron Man as he was president at the celebration.
I was here at the same moment in time that two mysterious artifacts of unknown origin and immense power appeared right in front of them each and for unknown purposes as well. They both took their artifacts to be thoroughly analyzed by their scientist for further research and both received the same conclusions that it's an unknown new technology that in their understanding, should even exist in the first place.
Unfortunately for Stark, Doom has found out the existence of the second artifact that Tony Stark's "Bodyguard" Iron Man has taken back to Stark Enterprises. Doom determined to possess both fabulous artifacts, Doom immediately headed for Tony Stark, where he was in his custom-built mansion resistance on the Pacific Coast.
Doom demands the artifact that Stark has in his position and was willing to pay any fair for it, however, Stark not wanting to let his secret as Iron Man reveal and knows enough the danger it could cause Stark to refuse Doom's offer. Doom left but not before giving him tomorrow to give the artifact to him or faced the wrath of doom.
That afternoon Stark ordered the complete evacuation of every employee, materials, and vital records from Stark Enterprise immediately. Once everyone was gone Stark ask Lieutenant James Rupert "Jim" Rhodes, a close friend to Stark, and once his replacement as Iron Man to active a remote that will set off explosive inside an Adamantium vault he created for artifact if Doom's henchmen get pass him in his battle against Doom.
The next day, morning rises for the emptiness of Stark Enterprise as Iron Man patiently waits for Doom to attack, only for Doom to send a platoon of robots to soften up Stark's automatic defenses and keep him busy. With Iron Man occupied with the Robots, Doom casually strides through Stark Enterprise as his force field takes care of the defenses.
Inside the Enterprise Administration building, James Rhodes sees the battle rage on through the security monitors when he notices the elevator was active, think it one of Doom's henchmen he aims his chain gun at the elevator doors only to reveal that it was Doom himself.
Knowing he has no chance of winning against Doom, Rhode detonated the explosive within the vault to destroy the artifact, only there was no explosion but instead, the vault started glowing with energy before the artifact phase through the Adamantium walls and float towards Doom as he takes the artifact and leaves, claiming it to be destiny that he should have it.
Outside the battle was nearly over as Iron man was about to destroy some of the last robots when James Rhodes came out and assisted his friend as the two finished off the rest in a quick section. Rhodes informed him that Doctor Doom has the artifact in his possession, thinking fast Iron Man used his onboard computers to track the artifact's unique energy matrix.
The energy trail leads to an abandoned housing mansion where Doom has set up his temporary base of operations, Doom has brought the other artifact close to the one he had and felt the magical energy being released as the two get close together. Doom combined both artifacts and saw a mighty glow of energy being unleashed… it suddenly stopped, as not even the glowing from before was president within the artifacts.
Doom ponders why nothing has happened when one of his underlings informed their master that Iron Man is approaching their location. Before Dr. Doom could even reply that the joint artifacts began to glow in a different light, a dark sentient light. Doom with the help of his armor radar shows the closer Iron Man gets to him the more the dark light grows from the artifacts, he realized that he and Iron Man were being manipulative as this unknown wanted them to be together with the joint artifacts.
Then Iron Man arrived as he crashed through the walls, Doom tries to warn Iron Man to quickly leave the area, unfortunately, it was already too late as they were close enough for the artifacts to erupt the black light that was swelling and filling the entire room, effectively engulfing the two mightiest warriors from the face of the earth before vanishing from reality without a trace.
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BGM-Marvel Super Heroes OST-Iron Man Stage
The visions faded as the Watcher is seen walking towards his larger citadel hidden away in the Blue Area of the moon, once entered he continues to walk as he passes the Arsenal room with a collection of ancient weapons of armors, blades, blasters, and including the most dangerous device of them throughout the entire universe… The Ultimate Nullifier.
"Although it seems events are the same compared to history you may know, that is not what happened on this earth. For you see at the last moment before bother was taken Dr. Doom used his sorcerer magic to try to prevent the artifact from taking him, unknowingly his magic interfered with the artifact slightly enough to change the destination then what originally intended." The watcher said as he entered a room that resembles a large observatory with a highly advanced technological telescope that's pointed directly at the planet earth.
"As of now the identity of this unknown culprit who manipulated this event and the new destination of both Iron Man and Dr. Doon currently eludes even my watchful eyes at this moment, but rest assured it's only a matter of time before I'll find the one who caused this. Until then, let's follow where both hero and villain will end up and what waits for both of them?" Uatu said as he activated the advance-telescope machine as he operated the holographic controls with multiple holographic screams to pop up and showing both Iron Man and Dr. Doom being plunged towards the frontier of the unknown.
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Cruz7808 Here: That's wrapped the prologue of my second story, which I'm gonna try to do, and it took forever trying to find a good opportunity in marvel comics of Iron Man either traveling or getting adopted to either an alternative dimension/timeline (which are only a small handful).
Not before I'll end it here let me ask a question for everyone to answer: Who would win between Iron Man Armors or the IS Exoskeleton and why do you think your side will win? I'll leave your answers in the comments or my newly created forum for this story and I'll remember to help me out if anyone spotted errors or mistakes within the story and I'll hopefully continue writing these stories later. Peace.