Chapter 85.
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No One's POV.
Arda, Valinor.
Night had fallen on Valinor.
For the last three thousand years (since the Changing of the World), it had been a realm of peace and healing. That chapter in Valinor's history had brutally ended that afternoon.
News about Thanos, Morgoth, and Curumo had quickly spread throughout the Blessed Realm.
The major reason being the Valar had decided to mobilize their host to defend against the expected invasion.
Many Eldar not involved in the military build-up instead took time to sing a lament for Earendil.
A Eärendil i Cirion.
Cyll-o mín mell êl.
Lothron i menel enyalien cin an uir.
Sui mín nîr i gurth-o cín galad.
One of the larger Elven choruses could be found in the Gardens of Lorien.
They were unaware that a much smaller gathering was taking place close-by.
The youngest occupant of New Bag End opened the front door after it was knocked thrice.
"Come in, Gandalf." A somber Frodo welcomed him.
Frodo closed the door after the wizard stepped inside.
Circumstance saw no embrace or pleasantries exchanged between the pair.
Particularly given who else had been invited to this gathering.
Gandalf followed Frodo into the sitting room.
Its fireplace was presently the only source of light throughout the house.
The effects of Bilbo's dementia could still be clearly seen though.
Seated in his favorite armchair, the elderly Hobbit was seemingly oblivious to the two dark cloaked individuals standing near him.
Galadriel and Elrond pulled back their hoods having been joined by the meeting's organizer.
Gandalf had first planned to express his deepest sympathies to Elrond.
However, he could not overlook another invitee's absence.
"Where's Celeborn?" Gandalf asked no one in particular.
"We agreed, Mithrandir." Galadriel spoke on her husband's behalf, "Our daughter should not have to face the ages alone."
"And she will not." Elrond said, remembering his farewell to her before coming to this meeting, "Lord Celeborn has gathered the Eldar for tonight's lament."
The White Wizard reflected the Elven habit of saying both 'no and 'yes' had not deceased in the
Undying Lands.
"I'm sorry, my friends." Gandalf admitted his confusion, "But I don't understand."
Elrond's eyes were red and puffy. If anything, the firelight belied how much how much he had been grieving for Earendil.
"None of us could prevent…my father's murder." Elrond struggled to say before pausing.
Gandalf thought his friend was about to weep.
Instead, the Elf-lord resumed speaking with a burning resolve in his eyes, "But nor will it go unanswered!"
At Elrond's signal, he and Galadriel cast off their cloaks. Elrond's armour was the suit he wore when the White Council assaulted Dol Goldur (his new sword was one forged in Valinor).
But it was Galadriel's attire that stunned Gandalf most of all. While clad in her customary white dress, the Lady of Light's torso was protected by a brilliant Noldor cuirass the color of her hair.
"We guessed your intentions, Mithrandir." Galadriel revealed.
Her words caused the White Wizard to gather his wits.
"It was not my intention for you to come with me!" Gandalf was aghast at their decision, "I called this meeting to ask you help defend Valinor in my absence."
The Wizard was reminded the gathering was being hosted by mortals.
"And say farewell?" Frodo knowingly asked, "Because we may never see you again."
The Wizard briefly closed his eyes at being caught out. Few understood the potential consequences of one-way trips better than the former Ring-bearer.
Despite this, Gandalf found it too painful to confirm this might represent a final farewell.
"I wish there was another way, Frodo." He indirectly admitted, "But unlike the Valar, I don't believe we can afford to wait. If we wish to stop the Great Enemy, we must stop Thanos from obtaining any more Infinity Stones – and we won't be able to do that from here. After all that the heroes have done for us, I can't abandon them in their hour of need. If only because my conscience won't allow it."
"Then it appears we are of the same mind, Gandalf." Elrond observed.
The White Wizard was again gripped by alarm. An Elf-lord bent on revenge following the death of his father and theft of a Silmaril had disturbing parallels.
"I do not want you to come with me." Gandalf said.
Eärendil's death made it easy to forget his son had suffered another grievous loss just years before.
"Gandalf, I once told Aragorn my daughter belonged here with her people." Elrond began before openly confessing for the first time, "I was wrong. Not just because it was Arwen's choice. But because there are things more precious than immortality." The Elf-lord told Gandalf in conclusion, "That includes our friendship with the heroes. And like yourself, we'd prefer to fall alongside them than stay here in regret forever."
Gandalf had lost so many friends (killed, corrupted or both) in the struggle against what Galadriel called the 'long defeat'.
And the war over the Infinity Stones was certain to add more to that tally beyond Earendil.
But he knew he would not be able to stop his friends from accompanying him.
Frodo responded by helping up his uncle. Bilbo stood using his cane for support.
Despite his silence during the debate, the Hobbit had proved that he had understood at least a snippet.
"I'm quite ready for another adventure," Bilbo quietly enthused.
"Not this time, old friend," Gandalf said before telling the Baggins, "Both of you must remain behind."
"No Gandalf. I will not run and hide" Frodo said firmly.
"Your wound will flare and kill you." The Wizard believed the reason still applied.
Frodo's reply bordered acceptance and fatalism, "I think it more likely Thanos will kill all of us first."
No immortal present believed Frodo's assessment was overly bleak. The White Wizard nonetheless wanted him to have a long life on the off-chance it was wrong.
"Either way my dear, Frodo." Gandalf compassionately replied, "I can't let you come."
Bilbo's eyes briefly flashed with lucidity. He and his nephew had as much right to make a choice as the mightiest Eldar.
"We're not asking Gandalf," Bilbo said that it was there decision.
Gandalf now knew there was no talking him out of this.
"We will keep Bilbo and Frodo safe" Galadriel assured him.
Earth-199999, New York Sanctum.
Doctor Strange and Wong were about to head out for some ice cream as they bickered about the money (or lack thereof) on the latter's person when something crashed through their window of there Sanctum.
They whirled around to see a giant hole in the staircase as it crashed there.
They cautiously approached the hole as Strange summoned the Cloak of Levitation and his uniform appeared while Wong summoned Tao Mandalas.
The two peered into the hole to see Hulk reverting back to Banner.
"Thanos is coming. He's coming…." Bruce breathed out in terror.
"Who?" Strange asked, to confirm what he had heard.
Tony Stark and Pepper Potts were walking together in Central Park, talking about having a baby, while Cisco, Rebecca, and Lex were talking nearby.
That was when an orange glowing portal opened and out walked Doctor Strange, startling all three of them as Cisco, Rebecca, and Lex walked up next to Tony and Pepper.
"Tony Stark. Cisco Ramon. Rebecca Stark. Lex Luthor." Strange said, "I need you four to come with me."
He then turned to Tony and Pepper, "Congratulations on the wedding by the way."
"Strange?" Tony asked, gathering his wits.
"What're you doing here?" Cisco asked.
"We need your help." He said, "It's not overselling to say that the fate of the Universe is at stake."
"Oh boy!" Rebecca said, freaking out.
"Who's "we"?" Tony asked.
And then Bruce Banner walked out of the portal, startling Tony, Rebecca, and Pepper while Cisco and Lex were confused.
"Hey, Tony." He said.
"Bruce." Tony greeted and then Cisco and Lex realized who he was.
"You're the Hulk?" Lex asked but was ignored.
"Pepper." He greeted her.
"Hi." She said, shocked by how he looked as he staggered towards the three.
"Hey man." Cisco said, trying to support him.
"You okay?" Tony asked as Bruce hugged him while Pepper, Rebecca, Lex, and Cisco watched in concern.
Tony and Rebecca sat in the New York Sanctum while Cisco and Lex stood next to them as Wong explained, "At the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then... Boom."
His magic showed the Big Bang happening and the projections of Infinity Stones appeared as he said, "The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals... hurtling across the virgin universe. These Infinity Stones each control an essential aspect of existence. Space. Reality. Power. Soul. Mind."
Each projection glowed as Wong said their names.
"And Time." Strange said as the Time Stone glowed in the Eye of Agamotto.
"Tell me his name again." Tony said.
"Thanos." Bruce told him, the fear in his voice clear, "He's a plague, Tony. He invades planets. He takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population. He sent Loki. The attack on New York, that's him."
"Oh boy!" Rebecca muttered, exchanging a look with Lex.
"This is it." Tony whispered to himself before asking, "What's our timeline?"
"No telling. He already has the Power and Space Stones. That already makes him the strongest creature in the whole universe. If he gets his hands on all six Stones, Tony…" Bruce replied.
"He could destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of. And there's no guarantee it would be confined to this universe alone." Dr. Strange finished.
"The Multiverse would be affected?" Lex asked.
"Yes. There is a huge chance." Strange confirmed.
Rebecca paled, the faces of Jason, Sinthea, the two Spider-Men from Earth-2002 and Earth-2012 and others coming to her mind.
"Including my friends." she whispered.
Tony was quiet for a moment, and then gestured to the Eye of Agamotto.
"If Thanos needs all six, why don't we send this one to another Earth, then?" He asked.
"We can send this to Earth-8096." Rebecca said in agreement, "The Avengers there would protect it."
"Thanos has the Space Stone. He would just track the Stone down and travel to that Earth." Bruce explained, "Including Earth-8096."
"We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone with our lives." Wong said firmly.
"And I swore off dairy. But then, Ben and Jerry's named a flavor after me." Tony said sarcastically.
"Stark Raving Hazelnuts. A bit chalky." Strange said.
Tony looked at him like he was a bit offended.
"He's right." Rebecca said and Tony was again offended.
"You're a traitor Becky!" he said.
"A Hunk of Hulk of Burning Fudge is our favorite." Wong added.
"That's a thing?" Bruce asked in confusion.
"Believe it or not yes." Lex sighed.
"The point is, things change." Tony said.
"Our oath to protect the Time Stone cannot change. And this Stone may be the best chance we have against Thanos." Strange countered.
"Yeah, so conversely, it may also be his best chance against us." Tony shot back.
"Well, if we don't do our jobs." Strange replied.
"What is your job exactly, besides making balloon animals?" Tony asked.
Strange smirked before saying, "Protecting your reality, douchebag."
"He's got you there." Rebecca laughed while Cisco and Lex chuckled, causing Tony to glare at them.
Bruce said, "Alright, guys. Can we table this discussion right now? The fact is that we have this Stone. We know where it is. Vision is out there somewhere with the Mind Stone. And we have to find him now."
"Yeah, that's the thing." Tony muttered, drawing a "Huh?" from Bruce. Tony looked at Bruce and said, "A few days ago, Vision turned off his transponder. He's offline."
"What? Tony, you've lost another super bot?" Bruce asked in exasperation.
"I didn't lose him. He's more than that. He's evolving." Tony protested.
"Who could find Vision, then?" Strange asked.
Tony looked off into the distance.
"Shit." He cursed before saying, "Probably Steve Rogers."
"Well, call him." Bruce said, "Thor's gone, Tony!"
"Wait what?" Cisco asked as all turned to him, "You sure about that?"
"Yeah." Bruce said sadly as him, Tony and Rebecca felt grief at there loss.
"Oh boy!" Cisco said.
"What is it, Ramon?" Tony asked.
"I had a dream last night of Hulk fighting a purple armored guy who beat him and killed Thor and Loki before taking a Stone." Cisco said as he turned to look at them all while they looked back at him in shock and horror, "Looks like it wasn't a dream."
"Shit!" Tony said as Bruce closed his eyes sadly.
Tony looked at him for a moment and looked at Cisco who nodded.
He took a few steps away, turned away from the others, and pulled out the flip phone that Steve had sent him.
"We should also call Jason." Rebecca added.
"Jason? He's dead" Bruce said in confusion.
"Yeah you missed quite a bit buddy. I'll explain it to you after this is over." Rebecca replied.
Tony flipped the phone open, grumbling about it being a flip phone, and then searched for Steve's contact.
He found it, and then paused.
He was about to hit the call button, when suddenly, he heard something.
He turned around and saw the others looking confused.
Tony looked right at Strange, and saw some of his hair blowing a bit as if in a slight breeze.
"Say, doc, you wouldn't happen to be moving your hair now, would you?" Tony asked.
"Not at the moment, no." Strange replied.
Suddenly, the sound of wind grew louder.
Looking up at the hole in the roof that Bruce's arrival caused, they saw some rubble being blown around.
The seven turned towards the door, and could see and hear people running past the door in fear.
After a moment, Tony started walking towards the door to find out what was going on.
He opened the door and looked around to see people were running around in terror as dust and debris flew around.
One woman fell right near him and he helped her up as a car crashed into a pole near him.
Bruce, Cisco, Lex, and Wong helped the people in the car as Tony put on his glasses.
"F.R.I.D.A.Y., what am I looking at?" He asked his A.I.
"Not sure." FRIDAY said, "I'm working on it."
"Hey!" Tony said as he turned around to face Strange, "You might wanna put that Time Stone in your back pocket, Doc!"
"Might wanna use it." Strange said as he summoned Eldritch Magic.
Tony avoided some flying debris from the other street and walked on it with Strange as dust flew around heavily, his glasses protecting his eyes.
A huge, circular spaceship was floating over Bleecker Street.
Cisco ran up next to them, putting on his Vibe glasses.
"FRIDAY, evac anyone south of 43rd Street. Notify first responders." Tony commanded.
"Will do." FRIDAY responded.
"Fantastic. The one time you actually need a Kryptonian and neither of them are here." Rebecca said to Lex sarcastically, and he couldn't help but agree.
Strange used a spell known as the Winds of Watoomb, firing Eldritch energy at the entire Bleecker Street, clearing it of dust and debris.
"Damn!" Rebecca whistled, impressed.
Strange winked at them as Tony smirked in amusement.
Then a beam shot down from the ship and Ebony Maw appeared, along with the 12 foot tall child of Thanos. He was called Cull Obsidian.
"He's ugly." Lex commented as they walked closer.
As Tony, Strange, Bruce, Cisco, Rebecca, Wong, and Lex stopped in front of the two, Ebony Maw announced, "Hear me and rejoice. You are about to die at the hands of the Children of Thanos. Be thankful... that your meaningless lives are now contributing..."
"I'm sorry, Earth is closed today." Tony cut him off, "You better pack it up and get outta here."
"Stonekeeper." Ebony Maw turned to Strange, ignoring Tony in an attempt to infuriate him, "Does this chattering animal speak for you?"
"Certainly not." Strange said as he and Wong summoned Tao Mandalas, "I speak for myself."
"And I'm guessing you're Thanos' chattering animal." Lex smirked, infuriating him.
"You're trespassing in this city and on this planet." Strange told them both.
"He means get lost, Squidward." Tony said as he, Rebecca, and Cisco smirked.
"He exhausts me." Maw told Cull, "Bring me the stone."
Cull grunted in an alien language and marched towards them.
"Do you want me to deal with him?" Lex asked, preparing to activate his 'Lexosuit'.
"No, not yet, just wait." Rebecca held him back.
Cull started marching towards the seven with his hammer as Tony asked Bruce, "Banner, you want a piece?"
"Mmm, no, not really." Bruce said before muttering, "But when do I ever get what I want?"
"That's right." Tony agreed.
"Okay. Push!" Bruce said his neck turned green.
"It's been a while." Tony said, "It's gonna be good to have you, buddy."
"Okay. Shh." Bruce said, "Let me just... I need to concentrate here for a second. Come on, come on, man."
His neck was a faint green now but it wasn't progressing, "God!"
"Where's your guy?" Tony asked him.
"I don't know. We've sorta been having a thing." Bruce said to their shock.
Cull had shattered a car and was marching closer to them now.
"Oh come on, now, really?" Rebecca asked in annoyance.
"It's no time for a thing." Tony said to Bruce as he put a hand on his friend's shoulder.
"I know." Bruce said.
Tony pointed at the marching Cull, "That's the thing right there. Let's go."
Bruce screamed loudly, trying to transform again as his face and neck turned green but he failed as the other six shot him looks.
"Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the Wizards." Tony said as he sighed sadly.
"Tony, I'm sorry." Bruce apologized, "Either I can't, or he won't."
"It's okay." Tony said gently, "Hey, stand down."
He looked to Wong, "Keep an eye on him." Wong nodded. "Thank you."
"I have him." Wong said.
"Damn it." Bruce muttered as Wong stepped in front of him protectively.
As Cull charged, Tony pulled two strings attached to him and tapped his chest-piece twice as he walked forwards.
The suit started forming around him slowly, the armour encasing him.
Tony took off his glasses which assimilated into the suit and soon, he stood there in Iron Man Armour: Mark L.
Tony formed a shield and blocked Cull's hammer before uppercutting him back and then formed Cluster Cannons, blasting Cull back as Maw telekinetically threw him to a side to save himself.
"HOLY SHIT!" Rebecca exclaimed in amazement.
Cisco also had a dropped jaw, and even Lex looked impressed.
"I love it already!" Cisco practically bounced in excitement.
"Where'd that come from?" Bruce asked. While far older than Cisco and Rebecca, he was just as awed as the younger man and woman.
"It's nanotech." Tony said, "You like it? A little something I..."
He was cut off when Maw produced a spike from Earth which threw him upwards.
Maw attacked the rest with uprooted trees as Wong summoned the Shield of the Seraphim for defense.
"Doctor Banner, if the rest of your green friend won't be joining us..." Strange opened a portal and Bruce fell into it for his own safety as half of a cab fell over him.
Strange was about to do something when Tony flew back in and pushed a car Maw had thrown back at him which he split into two by raising his hand.
"Gotta get that Stone outta here, now." Tony said as he turned to Strange.
"It stays with me." Strange shot back.
"Exactly. Bye." Tony said as he flew.
Maw threw obstacles at him but Cisco opened a breach and Tony flew into it before Cisco opened one behind Maw.
Before Maw could react, Tony flew out of it and was about to fire at him when Cull threw his chain hammer and it crashed Tony through a building into the park where Bruce was.
Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios were walking down the street hand-in-hand when a crash was heard and they turned to see Tony crash into the park.
"Let's suit up." Matt said to Elektra who nodded.
Danny Rand and Colleen Wing had also noticed the fight and were racing to help.
Tommy Merlyn of this Earth was chilling in the park, drinking some juice when he saw Tony Stark in his armour crashing into the park with some kind of claw hammer wrapped around him.
He finished the drink and threw it into a nearby bin before taking out a compound bow he was hiding inside his jacket as he opened it up to reveal his Dark Archer suit, "Just another day on the job."
In Stark Tower, the hairs on Gwen Stacy's arms stood up.
She looked at them in confusion and then turned to see the Q-Ship in the air.
"Oh god" she said with dread in her voice.
"Guys!" she called out.
White Canary, Dustin Henderson, Captain America, and Professor Sheldon Oberon came running out, and they saw the Q-Ship as well.
"Oh this is giving me bad memories" White Canary muttered, remembering fighting against the forces of Thanos on Earth-96.
"Let's suit up!" Captain America said firmly.
Gwen opened up her backpack, revealing the Spider-Woman suit.
"We'll meet you there!" Oberon called back as he, Captain America, Dustin and White Canary raced downstairs.
Gwen put on her Spider-Woman suit and swung out of Stark Tower, ready to engage Maw and Cull in battle.
"Tony, you okay?" Bruce asked as he ran up to the downed Tony, "How we doing? Good? Bad?"
"Really, really good. Really good." Tony said sarcastically as he got up, "Do you plan on helping out?"
"I'm trying. He won't come out." Bruce said.
Cull then burst through a building and threw his claw hammer again as Tony flew Bruce out of harm's way, "Hammer."
Then Cull was hit by an explosive arrow and roared in rage as Tommy Merlyn arrived on the scene, firing at him with his bow.
Tony flew around and fired repulsors at Cull who transformed his hammer into a shield to block.
"How are you, Merlyn?" Tony asked.
"Really, really annoyed." Tommy replied as he continued firing.
"Good." Tony said as the deflected beam cut off a tree which would have fallen on Bruce had he not barely avoided.
"Come on, Hulk!" He started slapping himself, "What are you doing to me? Come out! Come out! Come out!"
His face suddenly transformed into Hulk and roared, "NOOOOOOOOO!"
He then transformed back into normal and collapsed to the ground in shock at what had just happened, "What do you mean, "No"?"
Tommy jumped back to avoid Cull's hammer and continued firing as Tony fired his repulsors when a Billy club hit him and ricocheted off him into the hands of Matt Murdock as Cull turned to him.
He rushed at Daredevil but Matt leapt high into the air and flipped off his arm to his other side while Elektra leapt at Cull and drove her sword into that very arm of his before retracting and flipping back.
Cull was barely affected though.
He charged them, hammer raised and was about to bring it down on them when a glowing katana blocked it.
He snarled, looking down at Colleen Wing, who had blocked his hammer with her chi-enhanced katana.
Before he could attack again, Danny Rand leapt at him with his Iron Fist charged and hit his face, sending him flying back.
He then landed on the ground as Cull got back up with a roar.
Tony was about to call out to Tommy again when Cull hit him with his hammer and smashed him to the ground as the others jumped away to avoid.
He was about to bring his hammer down again when someone stopped it.
"Hey, man."
It was Spider-Man.
"What's up, Mr. Stark?" He asked as he turned around before noticing the others, "Oh my God! Daredevil, Dark Archer and Black Sky are here too! And you are Danny Rand!"
He glanced apologetically at Colleen, "I don't know you."
She shrugged as Tony asked, "Kid, where'd you come from?"
Spider-Man started, "A field trip to Mo-"
He was cut off when Cull grabbed him and threw him off as Matt leapt at Cull and hit his chest with the Billy club before flipping back down and rolling away as Elektra threw a shuriken but he was barely affected.
Tony fired a repulsor which he blocked as Spider-Man swung back in, "Uh, what is this guy's problem, Mr. Stark?"
"Uh, he's from space." Tony said, "He came here to steal a necklace from a Wizard."
Cull grabbed Spider-Man in his claw hammer and rotating him around, threw him away as Tony fired another repulsor but he blocked with his shield and threw half of a cab at a swinging Spider-Man.
During that time, Colleen charged her katana with chi and stabbed his leg, making him roar in pain as Danny leapt at him with his Iron Fist charged and hit his face, sending him down just as Spider-Man grabbed the half of the cab with his webbing and threw it down on him, crashing it on him.
"So your fist and you sword glow." Tony noted.
"You don't wanna know." Tommy sighed.
Then, a red and blue disk hit Cull, staggering him slightly.
Captain America and White Canary rushed onto the scene.
Dustin and Oberon followed them, both armed with energy rifles.
Cull sensed something behind him and turned to see a cab thrown at him, which smashed into him.
Spider-Woman swung onto the scene.
"You don't look that bright." She quipped.
During this time, another intense duel was taking place.
Maw lifted up several bricks telekinetically and turning them into sharp points, fired at Strange, Rebecca, Lex, Cisco and Wong.
Strange and Wong opened portals to defend themselves as Cisco and Lex opened breaches.
Strange and Wong boomeranged the points back at Maw who defended himself with a car but his face was still hit by one, forming a cut.
Rebecca took the opportunity and activated her suit, firing a repulsor, sending Maw flying back as he crashed to the ground.
But Maw wasn't one to give up so easily.
Using his telekinetic powers, he used a broken fire hydrant's stream to throw Cisco, Lex, and Wong back, knocking them out temporarily, though Lex was less hurt as he hadn't been hit on the face.
Rebecca tried to fire again, but Maw created a spike from the Earth, throwing her high into the air, and taking her out of the fight temporarily.
Strange wrapped Maw in an Eldritch whip and pulled him towards himself but Maw grabbed him and pinned him to a building, trapping him with bricks.
"Your powers are useless. You must be popular with children." Maw mocked as he tried to take the Eye of Agamotto but instead his hand got burnt, making him gasp in pain.
"It's a simple spell but quite unbreakable." Strange told him.
"Then I'll take it off your corpse." Maw snarled as he threw Strange down.
Strange got up and was about to use the Time Stone when utility cables restrained him tightly.
"You'll find removing a dead man's spell troublesome." Strange said, the tight cables making it hard to speak.
"You'll only wish you were dead." Maw said as Strange was thrown down and the tight cables managed to knock him out.
Maw then raised the pavement to take Strange away but the Cloak of Levitation flew him off.
"No!" Maw yelled angrily as Cisco and Lex got up at the same moment.
Strange flew past where Tony, Matt, Tommy, Elektra, Spider-Man, Danny, Captain America, White Canary, Spider-Woman, and Colleen were fighting Cull.
"Kid, that's the wizard." Tony told Spider-Man as he blocked Cull's hammer with his shield, "Get on it."
"On it!" Spider-Man said as he flew after Strange as Maw was also floating after him on a pavement.
"Hold up!" Spider-Woman called out as she swung up next to Spider-Man.
Maw threw debris at Peter to throw him down but an energy blast destroyed it.
Spider-Man turned around to see Cisco barely managing to fly in the air by firing his vibe blast on the ground and using that to hover himself, though it was rather hard.
Lex was in his Lexosuit, although it appeared to be damaged.
"So cool." Spider-Man said as Cisco smirked at him.
Maw used his powers to put all poles in Strange's way.
One of them trapped his Cloak of Levitation and Strange started falling down.
Cisco still hadn't mastered this flying ability and ended up hitting the side of his head on one of the poles, getting dazed, though he still managed to barely remain airborne but his senses were dimmed.
"Gotcha!" Spider-Woman said as she managed to save the falling Strange with a web while Cisco, Peter, and Lex came next to him but a beam started pulling them all up.
Gwen held onto Strange with her web and held onto a pole to save them both as Cisco now started firing at the spaceship above to lower himself down but Maw broke the pole with telekinesis and Strange started being beamed up.
Lex, and Peter bumped into Cisco, making them lose focus and all four of them were now being beamed up.
"Uh, Mr. Stark, I'm being beamed up." Spider-Man said lamely.
"And it's not good." Cisco added
"Don't forget about us." Gwen groaned dryly as Lex chuckled, but there was no trace of humor in his tone.
"Cisco, Spider-people, bald guy, hang on." Tony said as he continued fighting Cull but was trapped in his claw hammer and thrown to the ground.
He tried to smack Oberon but he ducked under it and shot Cull with his energy rifle, causing him to roar in rage.
Cull then turned and smacked Oberon into Tommy and Colleen, sending all three to the ground, although Tommy tried to get up again.
Cull then produced a blade and leapt at Tony when a portal opened in the way and he was thrown into Antarctica through it.
He tried to jump back up but Wong closed the portal, cutting off his hand in the process.
"Whoa!" Bruce said, startled and kicked the hand away, "Ugh."
"Gross as hell." Oberon said dryly as Tony broke his restraints and got back up.
"Wong, you're invited to my wedding." He said to Wong before telling the others, "You guys too."
"Reminds me of our Tony." White Canary commented to Captain America who nodded in agreement.
Tony then flew up towards the ship, "Give me a little juice, FRIDAY."
The foot thrusters transformed into a larger jet and he flew up at full speed.
Spider-Man and Spider-Woman were trying to climb up on the ship as Cisco and Lex just hung on.
Lex had deactivated his Lexosuit as the pressure was crushing him.
He was trying to fix it at the current moment though.
All four were struggling to breathe.
"Unlock 17:A. 18:A. and 19:A" Tony told FRIDAY as he continued flying up, "Pete, Cisco, Gwen, you three gotta let go. I'm gonna catch you."
"But you said save the Wizard!" Peter Parker yelled.
"Not at the expense of your own life, you moron!" Lex snapped at him.
Peter groaned and took off his mask as all four struggled to breathe, "I can't breathe."
"We're too high up." Cisco told him, "We're running out of air."
"Yeah. That makes sense." Peter said.
"Of course it does!" Gwen snapped.
Cisco then let go as Peter and Gwen fell off too when flying suits wrapped around the three of them.
Cisco could immediately breathe again and used the suit to fly up, having used it twice before for test flights.
Peter's suit wrapped around him as well. It was a red and black suit with a Spider symbol on the centre.
Gwen's suit was white, red, and black and it was made of metal.
Cisco's suit was black with yellow stripes on the shoulders there was a line in the centre which was hotrod red.
The lower torso and waist were also colored dark while the helmet had a long thin eyehole for his glasses.
The palm gauntlets had black circles to allow him to fire his vibe blasts.
And they would enhance their powers as well.
Lex fell off and tapped his watch twice, forming the Lexosuit around him again.
"Mr. Stark, it smells like a new car in here!" Peter said happily as he stood up.
"That's what you're thinking right now?" Lex asked increadusly as he flew up in his suit.
"Happy trails, kids." Tony told them, "FRIDAY, send them home."
"Yep." FRIDAY said as a parachutes opened behind Peter and Gwen and started flying them off.
"Oh, come on!" Gwen yelled in protest.
"You did well, guys." Cisco said as Peter and Gwen were flown back.
"Ramon, Luthor, come with me." Tony said as the three flew up and Tony used his laser to open a hole in the ship.
The three flew inside and landed when FRIDAY said, "Boss, incoming call from Miss Potts."
Tony picked up as a panicking Pepper said from the other end, "Tony? Oh, my God. Are you all right? What's going on?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Tony told her, "Ramon and Luthor are with me. I just think we might have to push our 8:30 res."
"Why?" Pepper asked.
"Just 'cause I'll probably not make it back for a while." Tony told her.
"Tell me you're not on that ship." Pepper said desperately.
"Yeah." Tony muttered.
"God, no, please tell me you're not on the ship." Pepper said again.
"Honey, I'm sorry." Tony said apologetically as he, Lex, and Cisco opened their visors to look at the ship's mechanism, "I'm sorry, I don't know what to say."
"Come back here, Tony." Pepper begged, "I swear to God."
"Pep-"
"Come back here right now. Come back."
"Boss, we're losing her."
"I'm going too." Pepper said as the call was cut.
Peter and Gwen had attached a webbing line to the ship and had climbed back up, thwarting Tony's attempt to save them.
"Oh, my God!" Peter said as the ship opened and he went inside, "I shoulda stayed on the bus."
"Yeah you should have! I came to save you fool!" Gwen snapped in frustration.
It closed as the ship flew into space at light speed.
Bruce picked up Tony's fallen flip phone as Matt, Tommy, Elektra, Danny, Captain America, Rebecca, White Canary, Dustin, Oberon and Colleen stood with him.
They turned to see Wong in a portal.
"Where you going?" Bruce asked.
"The Time Stone's been taken." Wong said, "The Sanctum remains unguarded. What will you do?"
"I'm gonna make a call." Bruce said.
Wong nodded and closed the portal.
"Been a while since I saw that" Rebecca noted.
"A Master of the Mystic Arts." Danny noted.
"You know about them?" Matt asked.
"Yes." He said, "They told us about them at Kun-Lun."
"Kun what?" Bruce asked, "Okay, who the hell are you guys?"
"I'm Daredevil. You'd have heard of me." Matt said.
"Yeah. I did." Bruce remembered before looking at the others, "But not of any of you."
"Black Sky." Elektra said.
"Dark Archer." Tommy introduced himself.
"Danny Rand." Danny said.
"Colleen Wing." Colleen introduced herself.
"I'm Steve Rodgers from Earth-96" Captain America said, making Bruce and the Defenders look at him with shock.
"Long story. This is Sara Lance, also from Earth-96" Captain America gestured to White Canary.
"I'm Dustin Henderson from Earth-2016" Dustin introduced himself.
"Professor Sheldon Oberon from Earth-2019" Oberon finished the introductions.
"What are you going to do?" Tommy asked.
"Call Steve Rogers." Bruce said.
"We met him and the other Avengers once." Elektra told him, "Where're you going?"
"The Compound probably." Bruce said.
"We went there once too." Matt said, "Come on."
"All right. I'm making a call and then we will go." Bruce said and they nodded. He then made the call.
It was game on now, and there was no turning back.
And Chapter 85 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
I hope you all enjoyed the fight scenes in this chapter, as well as the additions of the Defenders, Cisco, Gwen, Rebecca, Lex, and the other heroes.
Yes, the MCU Earth has its own version of Tommy Merlyn. This version is a good guy who operates as the vigilante Dark Archer.
I wanted to involve the Netflix characters very early in this as well. Jessica and Luke will show up later.
So now Matt, Tommy, Elektra, Danny, Colleen, Oberon, Dustin, Rebecca and the Earth-96 heroes will join Steve and the others while Cisco, Gwen and Arrowverse Lex are going to stick with Tony.
Here are the list of Earths involved in this chapter:
Earth-1. Home of the Arrowverse, Star Trek, Lucifer, Devil May Cry, Fast and Furious and Final Fantasy.
Earth-38. Home of Supergirl and Keanu Reeve's Constantine.
Earth-96. Home of the 'Kingdom Come' heroes.
Earth-2016. Home of Stranger Things.
Earth-2019. Home of Jumanji.
Earth-199999. Home of the MCU, John Wick, and Lord of the Rings.
Now, next chapter will pick up the pace as well.
Until next time, review, follow, faviroute, stay tuned and tell me what you think of this chapter.
Arrowverse Fan 217 Out.