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So here we are with Part 11 of the 'Heroes' series. Like I promised at the end of the Deadpool story, I am going to follow the order in which I said I would do stuff, though I will still be doing my Avengers/Buffy crossover side-by-side with all of these stories.

Also, in 'Of Speedsters and Forces' I originally had Javier Bardem as Dr. Doom but after a suggestion from Brainstorm Sorcerer, I have changed the actor to Cillian Murphy, because he can play all the compelling aspects of Doom rather well.

I would also like to thank Brainstorm Sorcerer for his help with this story, because my ideas and chronology for the story were a total mess, but with his help, we managed to make it coherent and might I say even brilliant, I guess.

So thank you very much to Brainstorm Sorcerer. Couldn't have done this without you. And thank you to him for the title of this story as well.

So, let us begin.

Chapter 1- Commencement of the game

Earth-10005, New York, Latverian Embassy

A tall, imposing, terrifying man wearing armor and a green cape and hood, with a mask to cover his face sat on his throne, looking down at a chessboard, with all the pieces on it.

A young man suddenly walked into the room, wearing a suit, as he looked down at Doom. "Sir, we have gotten wind of what you are about to do."

"And what might that be, Mr. McDonald?" Doom asked in a deathly calm voice.

"You plan to take over this Earth, don't you?" Lindsey McDonald asked but got no response as he took out a paper from his coat and put it down. "I am sorry, but we cannot let that happen. The Senior Partners want a meeting with you so we can hash out the details."

"Wolfram and Hart", Doom rolled his eyes. "Always trying to play the game from the shadows, and in turn, losing it."

Doom picked up the paper and in front of the shocked Lindsey, it combusted in his hand, making the man back off in horror. "Tell the Senior Partners once I am done with this Earth, I shall come for them. But then again, they fail to deal with a lowly Vampire with a soul, they have no hope against the greatest mind in the Multiverse! And perhaps you should ask them to check the building of their LA branch on Earth-92. The Beast may be slow, but his capability of destruction is high."

Lindsey McDonald simply looked down, feeling humiliated, and walked off in the other direction, past Lex Luthor who walked in.

"We're ready", Lex told him with a nod.

Doom looked at him, his eyes boring through the Luthor's soul.

"Then…..begin."

Lex nodded and started walking away when Doom said to him-

"Your history for failure is extensive, Luthor. Change that, or I will."

Lex gave no response to the subtle threat against him and walked out of the room, knowing what he had to do.

Deconsecrated plays

"If you want peace", Doom picked up a pawn. "Prepare for war." He moved the pawn forward.

Same time, New York

Portals opened in the sky and out flew Griffins, and demons with skeletal faces and robes, all carrying scythes, and giant blue bats that looked like they were made of electricity.

The people looked at them in fear and ran, screaming, when the manholes opened up and out came demons with blue fangs, and some kinds of demonic flies, some were blue and others green.

There were feline wolf creatures too, all made of shadow.

They attacked the people as well, killing them as the people realized there was no escape no matter what they did.

Suddenly, Susan Storm hovered in the air and raised her hands as the demons leapt at the crowd of civilians but were blocked by an invisible barrier, making them all fall down and grunt in anger as Sue kept her barrier up.

As the Griffins and Scythes flew down, they were hit by a burst of flames as Johnny arrived, flying at full speed. "Woohoo!"

The Scythes flew at him in anger but he weaved in the air to avoid as he said. "Oh! So Death wants me or something? Guess I'm gonna beat Death itself! I'm immortal!"

With that, he fired fireballs at them, sending them all down before firing a concentrated burst at the Griffins, taking them down as well.

Some of the feline creatures tried to leap at the civilians again but were once more pushed away by the shield as Sue grunted, trying to hold it up.

The blue flies flew up into the air at Johnny, who once again flew higher to get away from them, before sending out a burst of flames from his body, destroying them all. "Sorry, I hate all kinds of flying insects."

Reed and Ben arrived in the Fantasticar, driving it up to one of the portals when some Scythes rushed them, so Ben steered to avoid, knocking two of them away with the back of the vehicle. "They are too many in number."

"We have to hold them off till we can figure out how to close those portals", Reed told him as a Griffin flew at them but Ben punched it, breaking its skull before throwing its limp body to the ground.

A battle had begun.

Same time, Earth-167, LuthorCorp

Lex slid his card and the glass cell opened as Joker Bat walked out, and then he walked to the other one and slid his card again, opening another cell as out came the Joker, both of them having wide grins of insanity on their faces.

He then handed Joker Bat a reality distorter. "You are going to need this."

With that, he walked to his table, pouring out some alcohol into a glass before closing the bottle.

Joker Bat used the distorter to open two portals and said to Joker. "Your ambitions are small, and that is why you shall go to Gotham City."

"You are an insane freak of nature, the only reason I am letting you live is because a Batty is about to be part of the game", Joker said as both laughed hysterically, hating each other but sharing in the jest at the same time.

With that, both of them walked into different portals, closing them as Lex took a sip of his alcohol.

"Have fun."

Same time, Earth-199999, New Asgard

From atop his throne in New Asgard, Thor felt something was amiss. Something was coming. Something big. A great power.

"Thor, what is it?" Sif asked, holding his hand as she looked at him in concern.

"I…..I feel something", Thor said as he got up. "Something powerful. Good or evil I know not, but it is powerful, and it is on its way to Earth."

"Shall we call on the Avengers?" Sif asked.

"Nay", Thor said as he held out his hand and Stormbreaker flew into it. "I shall intercept it."

He walked off before turning to her. "While I am gone, you are the ruler of Asgard, and Valkyrie and Loki shall be your assistants, they shall report to you."

"Understood", Sif said with a low bow of the head before the two shared a kiss.

"Be careful, Lord Thor", Sif advised.

"I will, Lady Sif", Thor said before he walked out to the entrance of the palace and flew away into Space as Sif watched after him.

And this is the end to Chapter 1, hope the opening was intriguing to all.

So Doom, Lex, Joker Bat and Joker, deadly combination isn't it? Though of course Joker Bat and Joker are loose cannons, but they are part of the plan. And Doom and Lex clearly don't get along, as we have seen so far.

And yes, I was going to add Buffyverse into this series in the next story, but I just couldn't resist a tease, so I had Wolfram and Hart make a cameo here. What Doom is referring to is the events of Angel 4x8, which is happening around this time.

So for Buffyverse, let's say the Snap happened between Buffy Seasons 6 and 7 and Angel Seasons 3 and 4, as nothing major would have happened then, and it was fixed in a few days anyway, so it won't interfere with their timeline. And their Earth is named Earth-92 after the year the Buffy film came out in. Was gonna name it Earth-96 as the show came out in that year but Routhman already got Earth-96.

Once again, thank you to Brainstorm Sorcerer for all of his help.

Anyway, hope everyone enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter. Stay safe from the coronavirus ya all!