Chapter 91.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
First off, I am really excited for the three new League of Legends champions Lillia, Yone and Seraphine, as they all sound absolutely amazing.
This chapter will pick up the pieces, while next chapter will begin the Endgame.
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No One's POV.
Earth-199999, Wakanda.
The sun was almost fading. But the hope and resolve of all the defenders has been shattered on every level possible.
Jason, Tommy, Kara, J'onn, Natasha, Bilbo, Pippin, White Canary, Steve, Rocket, Banner, Rhodes, Oliver, Sara, Barry, Caitlin, Brian, Elizabeth, Nate, Rumple, Miles, Crowe, Marc, Matt, Elektra, Frank, Legolas, Gimli, Faramir, Eomer, Arya, Dwalin, Aragorn, Arwen, Elrond, Galadriel, Clint, Logan and M'Baku had retired to the palace, along with several others.
Aragorn, Jason, Steve and Arwen had taken T'Challa's place in carrying out recovery operations, ignoring there own grief for the moment.
M'Baku, Okoye, Kara, J'onn, Barry, Crowe and Frank assisted them, trying not to break down at there losses every passing moment.
"Jessica?" Tommy questioned in a voice that was barely a whisper.
"Please don't say it" Elektra said.
"What are we supposed to do!? Thanos snapped his fingers and half the universe is dead!" Tommy snapped.
But there was nothing they could do now.
Tahiti.
The Zephyr landed on the ground as Mack, Daisy and Fitz walked out to see Coulson sitting alone on the beach, deep in thought.
"Sir?" Mack called out.
Coulson looked up at them and rubbing his chest said, "May. She's gone. Turned to dust."
Daisy's lip quivered as tears streamed down her cheeks at the death of her other mentor.
Seeing that, Coulson staggered up and hugged her as she broke down in his embrace.
"Jemma." Fitz said brokenly as he looked at Coulson who looked back at him in sympathy, "She's gone."
"Normally, I'd be happy to see you, Fitz." Coulson said gently as he put a hand on the younger man's shoulder, "But right now, I don't know what to say."
"Yo-Yo is gone too." Mack said sadly as Coulson sighed, "Along with Piper and Davis. And Deke."
"What should we do?" Daisy asked as she finally parted from Coulson, wiping her tears.
"It's happening around the world." Mack said, "It's worse than anything we've faced before."
"I've never seen anything like this before." Coulson said before turning to Mack and giving him a nod, "Well, Director Mackenzie, there's work to be done."
Wakanda.
Once the recovery operations were finished, the others returned to the palace as well.
Steve, Jason and Logan noticed Thor and Banner sitting together glumly.
"Cap." Banner greeted.
"Bruce. Thor." Steve simply said as he sat down with them.
"I failed!" Thor moaned, "I…..I should have gone for the head!"
"You were angry, bub." Logan told him, "Not thinking clearly. Happens to all of us."
"And now half of all life is gone!" Thor snapped as lightning flashed outside for a second.
Seeing that, he calmed down slightly before sitting back down, his head in his hands.
"There's nothing to do at the moment. What's important is that we pick up the pieces" Jason said, but his words sounded hollow and empty.
He closed his eyes and walked away while Steve, Logan, Banner and Thor watched sadly.
"Jason" he heard a familiar voice speak.
"Novu" Jason said, turning around to see Mar-Novu standing there.
"I am truly sorry for your losses" Mar-Novu said sincerely.
Jason simply nodded, not knowing what to say.
"But if I were you, I would not say the day is done, nor bid the stars farewell" Mar-Novu said.
Jason now looked up at him with anger, but couldn't find the urge to speak.
"I know I couldn't help you, so I convinced a close friend" Mar-Novu said.
Footsteps were heard and Nalia emerged, with a sad smile on her face.
"Jason" she said.
Jason nodded in greeting.
She moved forward and wrapped Jason in a motherly hug.
"I know you won't believe me. But I will say this now: Hope will come back, and Thanos shall feel a twist of fate" Nalia said.
Jason closed his eyes and when he opened them, Nalia and Mar-Novu were both gone.
"Thank you" Jason whispered, tears flowing down his cheeks.
Oliver and Sara were in a room together, trying to comfort each other as Barry, Brian, Caitlin and Elizabeth approached.
"I'm sorry." Barry simply said to them.
"I'm sorry too." Oliver said, knowing they were worried for Cisco.
"If you need anything, we're here." Caitlin assured as she sat down with them.
"What I need, is Roy, Dig, Rene and Thea alive and happy!" Oliver snapped as he looked at them and they knew their words had been poorly phrased.
"He killed Merry, Boromir and my team too." Sara said with tears in her eyes, "He really thought he was saving the Universe by killing people? Good, kind, innocent people?"
"His thinking is askew." Brian sighed as he wiped his face, "He is wrong, but he thinks he is right. Same can't be said about Morgoth though."
"There is nothing to be said now." Oliver said as he got up, "Thanos did it. We failed. We're failures!"
Barry tried to say, "Ollie, do-"
"We're nothing!" Oliver snapped as he pushed Barry away momentarily, "We're failures and liars! We are useless and we can't do a damn thing right!"
With that, he collapsed to the ground on his knees and for the first time in years, broke down over what had happened as Barry, Sara, Brian, Elizabeth and Caitlin hugged him for comfort.
Crowe was standing out in a hallway, when she noticed Nate approaching her.
"Nate" she said simply, her usual enthusiasm missing from her tone.
"Are you okay?" Nate asked.
Crowe simply gave him a bland look and he winced.
"Right, stupid question" Nate shook his head.
"No, its okay" Crowe assured, grabbing his hand.
"I just can't stop thinking about if had been different" Nate confessed.
"I know. We failed, we're all damn failures! We preach how we can beat any threat we face, and now Thanos and Morgoth humiliated us!" Crowe snapped angrily.
She then calmed down slightly.
"Hey, it will be okay" Nate assured, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"How?" Crowe asked and Nate didn't reply, because he did not know the answer.
The Garden.
Thanos sat down with a sigh and watched the sunset as he had said he would to Strange, the beginning of a smile on his face.
He felt some people present behind him and said, "I have done it. Half of all life is gone."
"But it can still be undone. They are all unruly wretches, always trying to fight when they know they shouldn't." Morgoth said as he walked up to Thanos.
His plan of taking the Mind Stone for himself had failed so now he would have to make another.
He wanted to hide somewhere but with Thanos being all-powerful, it wasn't a wise choice.
Thanos wasn't fooled by Morgoth. But the Dark Lord still had his uses.
"I beat them already." Thanos countered and Morgoth gave a terrifying laugh that sent chills down the spines of Saruman and Peter Pan who were behind them.
"You beat them. But they are still alive. They will come for us." Morgoth said.
"They will." Pan snorted in disgust, "They can't live without clinging to these ideals of theirs that doing things the way we do is wrong."
"They need to be broken. So badly that even the thought of destroying you never comes to mind." Morgoth told him.
'And destroying me.' He added in his mind.
Thanos considered. Morgoth and Pan did have good points.
The Avengers and all the heroes who had fought him from Arda and the other Earths were ready to die for what they believed in and would no doubt try to undo what he had done.
They were not grateful, like they should be. And that thought made him very, very angry.
He would not let them ruin his hard work. Not after everything he had done! After all the sacrifices he had made!
But Morgoth won't be his lord either. So destroying the Infinity Stones wouldn't be the best idea as that would make Morgoth lord over him for sure.
Fighting back against the heroes would be the best idea.
"Let them come." Thanos said as he got up and turned to face them, "We will be prepared."
"Oh yes we will. We're gonna give those heroes a fight that they will never forget" Pan smirked.
The Monitor's realm.
"He did it." Phantom Stranger said in a numb voice as Mar-Novu lowered his head in sadness.
"But wait. Listen to me." Jim Corrigan said as Phantom Stranger, Mar-Novu, Dr Fate and Uatu the Watcher all looked at him, "Thanos used the Infinity Stones to kill half of all life. We can still defeat him"
"The heroes will fight him. We can direct John Constantine and Gamora to figure out what to do. And find the Fallen. She will help" Corrigan explained and all nodded, a plan forming in there minds.
Wakanda.
About 5 days later, the survivors had recovered themselves just well enough and had decided to go back to New York.
Okoye and M'Baku stayed in Wakanda obviously and promised to take care of the bodies of Takio and Vision.
Before they had gone, Thor had used his weather manipulation to cleanse the fiery pits Morgoth's mace had formed.
The remaining armies of Wakanda, Gondor, Rohan, Westeros, Greenwood and Erebor were staying in Wakanda too for the time being along with Dwalin.
Arya and Thorin decided they would go with the heroes to New York.
Natasha and Clint were piloting the jet while the rest were simply sitting glumly.
Oliver and Sara held hands, still not over the deaths of their loved ones, for obvious reasons of course.
Barry and Caitlin were praying for Cisco every single moment as well as while Faramir sat with eyes closed, missing his wife, son and brother.
Eomer was next to him too, missing his sister, uncle and friend with closed eyes.
Galadriel had an arm wrapped around Bilbo and Pippin for comfort as Elrond, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Arwen sat next to them.
White Canary sat down glumly, having not said a word since the Decimation happened.
"Caitlyn, Jayce. I love you both." She whispered.
Steve was looking around at everyone and then at Natasha and Clint. Thor and Bruce sat next to each other, grief and anger in their eyes.
Thor had noticed that Eomer looked like Skurge but after incident with Galadriel, he knew it wasn't Skurge.
Rhodes simply had his head in his hands.
Rumple and Marc sat with there heads lowered.
Brian and Elizabeth were holding hands glumly, while Crowe and Nate looked out the window mournfully.
Thorin and Arya bowed there heads sadly at all the losses.
Jason had fiery anger shining in his eyes and Miles had his head in his hands.
Matt and Elektra held hands to comfort each other while Frank sat next to Rocket, patting his head to comfort him over Groot's loss.
Tommy stood, his head bowed.
Logan stood in the jet, looking at the others glumly.
Even Natasha and Clint were barely holding up. The only reason they were was because they were driving the Quinjet.
"Steve!" Natasha suddenly called out as Steve ran up to her.
"What is it?" Steve asked.
"Someone filed a report saying they found a guy matching Fury's description in Hell's Kitchen!" Clint said.
"Hell's Kitchen?" Steve asked and they nodded as everyone else's attention was drawn too.
"Pulling up traffic cam footage now." Clint said, trying to keep the emotion out of his voice.
As Jason, Thor, Banner, Rhodes and Logan walked to them, Natasha pulled up the footage.
In the footage, Fury and Hill ran out after avoiding a crashing car and looked at people disintegrating.
Then Hill disintegrated as Fury ran to his car and taking out a pager, pressed a button before turning to dust too.
"What is that?" Steve asked.
"A pager." Clint noted.
Steve paused and then said, "Take us to Hell's Kitchen! We need to find out about this."
The two nodded.
"Fury sent a message to someone on the pager." Galadriel cryptically said as she opened her eyes, "You will find out soon enough."
Everyone knew she loved talking cryptically so they just nodded and continued riding.
"And of course she still speaks in riddles" Jason muttered to himself.
Galadriel knew the person Fury had called, while powerful and friendly, was arrogant too so the others would have to point out her arrogance to her.
Few hours later, Hell's Kitchen, New York.
The Quinjet descended in an alley as out walked Natasha and Matt while the rest stayed inside.
As they walked around the street, they soon discovered the pager on the ground.
It had a symbol of a gold star set between blue and red.
"Now we're going to the Compound." Natasha informed Matt who nodded as they walked back to the Quinjet.
"How far are we?" Tommy asked as he walked to the front.
"We'll get there in 15 minutes." Clint told him and he nodded.
Natasha then beckoned Matt to her and handed him the pager. He showed it to the others with the symbol and asked, "Anyone seen this symbol before?"
Thor's and Rocket's eyes widened in recognition.
"That's Kree!" Rocket said and it sounded like he was shuddering.
"What are those?" Elizabeth asked.
"A very violent war-loving alien race." Thor informed them.
"Like Orcs?" Legolas asked.
"Yes." Thor replied, "But much smarter. They invade planet after planet driving their inhabitants away."
"Why would Fury be in contact with a race like them then?" Steve asked.
"No idea." Natasha replied, "We'll have to find out."
"Well he was BFF's with Skrulls, so I aint surprised" Jason muttered to himself, making Steve and Clint look at him, but he waved them off.
15 minutes later.
The Quinjet lowered at the New Avengers Facility and all of them walked out as Pepper noticed them and her red and puffy face made it clear she had been crying.
She ran to Rhodes, hugging him as he comforted her, "Pep! It's all right!"
"Tony isn't back yet!" She sobbed into his shoulder, "What if he…?"
She trailed off and started crying again as all looked at her sadly.
"Where is Rebecca?" Pepper asked.
"Um…yeah…about that" Jason winced.
"No! Not Becky as well!" Pepper burst into tears again, making Jason hug her tightly.
"Why didn't Gandalf return with him?" Sara asked, speaking for the first time since the ride.
"Mithrandir's powers are limited in his form." Elrond explained, "Which is why he couldn't bring them back."
"And they did not want to return either." Galadriel told them and they nodded.
"Come on in guys." Steve led them in and they looked around at the facility.
They didn't recognize most of the technology, though they were awed by it for sure.
They would have been more awed had the situation not been so dire.
"What are we going to do with this 'pager'?" Aragorn asked.
"Find out who Fury was calling." Banner replied and he nodded as he understood.
"Come on." Natasha said as she led them to a bot they had stored. She fitted it on the bot, keeping it activated.
"Anything happens, tell us." Steve commanded and all nodded.
Later.
Jason found Rumple sitting glumly on a chair, staring into space.
"Are you okay?" Jason asked.
Rumple looked at him and then slightly nodded.
"Sort of. I just can't believe Robin is gone. I mean, one minute he was there, next minute he's gone" Rumple said.
"I know" Jason put a hand on Rumple's shoulder, not knowing what to say.
Rumple nodding at Jason in thanks as Steve walked into the room.
"Oliver, Crowe, Natasha and Barry are trying to find out how many people were killed." He said.
They nodded and got up, following him into the room where Oliver, Crowe, Natasha and Barry stood together, looking at holograms, noting down the global casualties of the incident.
"Trillions." Crowe said sadly, "The monster killed trillions of people."
"Men, women, children, babies, they just turned to dust." Oliver added, a dangerous edge to his voice.
"And the resulting accidents are killing even more." Barry noted to them.
"This is a nightmare." Natasha said as she watched the list of causalities.
Aragorn, Logan and Rhodes suddenly walked into the room.
"Hey, so that thing stopped whatever the hell it was doing." Rhodes said.
"The star on it disappeared." Aragorn told them.
The six followed them to where the pager had been kept as Banner, Matt, Elektra, Marc and Galadriel stood there.
"What do we got?" Steve asked.
"Well, whatever signal it was sending finally crapped out." Banner said.
"Maybe it's out of power." Logan shrugged.
"I thought we bypassed the battery." Steve said, confused.
"We did. It's still plugged in. It just stopped." Rhodes replied.
"The signal it was giving died down." Matt told them, having noted it, "It shut off by itself."
Steve was quiet before saying, "Reboot it. Send the signal again."
"Hey, we don't even know what this is." Banner warned.
"Fury did." Natasha said, pausing for a split second before continuing, "Tell me the second you get a signal. I want to know who's on the other end of this thing."
That moment Legolas, Matt and Galadriel sensed a presence in the room and just as Natasha turned around, she stopped to see a woman with long blonde hair, wearing a uniform in the same colours as the symbol they saw on the pager.
Jason briefly started at seeing her, due to her resemblance to Earth-2013 Captain Marvel.
She looked at Natasha and finally asked her question.
"Where's Fury?"
Everyone stared before Marc whipped out a knife and demanded, "Who are you?"
She eyed Marc and the knife, unimpressed before saying, "The name's Carol Danvers. People call me-"
"Captain Marvel." Galadriel finished as all turned to her, Carol looking unnerved, "I knew you would come."
"How?" She asked.
"Don't ask her. She's creepy." Logan said, only to get glares from Legolas, Jason and Oliver but didn't care, "As for Fury, he got…" Logan snapped his finger, "Dusted."
Carol looked shocked as she asked, "Him too?"
"Yeah." Steve said, "Him too."
"Tell me everything." She said and they moved to the conference room.
Elsewhere.
Outside New York, a blue breach opened up and someone sped out of it.
Looking around, Nora Snow-Allen aka X2 removed her cowl, allowing her blonde hair to flow freely.
"Gideon, am I in the right time period?" Nora asked.
"Yes Ms Snow-Allen. May 2, 2018" Gideon replied.
"Well, its time to get to work. We need to reverse the Decimation and defeat Thanos and Morgoth once and for all" Nora said and sped off in the direction of the New Avengers Facility.
And Chapter 91 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
I felt that this was a good stopping point here. I apologize if I didn't cover all the characters, but I feel that the emotional scenes would get a bit repetitive.
So now Nora Snow-Allen, Barry and Caitlin's daughter from the future, and MCU Captain Marvel have appeared.
Next chapter will also explain why Nora is in the past, and will highlight some stuff from the future.
I will admit, I'm not Carol's biggest fan, but I have no choice but to involve her in this.
However, unlike the movies, I will actually be calling her out on her behaviour.
I honestly prefer the EMH version, and even Avengers Assemble Carol would give her MCU counterpart and earful.
Also, picture Nora being played by Jennifer Lawrence as she would nail it.
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-X. Home of the Ray and Miles Morales.
Earth-96. Home of the 'Kingdom Come' heroes.
Earth-1937. Home of Once Upon A Time.
Earth-2018. Home of A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones.
Earth-199999. Home of the MCU, John Wick and Lord of the Rings.
Now, next chapter will continue the plot and we will see a new character show up to help the heroes battle Thanos.
Until next time, review, follow, faviroute, stay tuned and tell me what you think of this chapter.
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