So, remember that old DMC/Avengers story I had where my OC becomes the host of the Phoenix Force during the events of the Avengers vs X-Men? Yeah, well I decided to bring it back and try my hand at it again. I'm going to try something different than I did with the first version of the story... well, as different as I believe I can make it.

And of course, this will be a harem story so expect that.

Now enough chit-chat, let's get this underway.


'How did things turn to shit so quickly? Oh yeah, because of Cyclops' X-Men...' Drake Redgrave, the half-demon hero known as Sparda, which is also his father's name, thought to himself as he stood on the moon with several members of the Avengers. The reason they were here was to try and stop the incoming Phoenix Force from bonding to Hope Summers and causing more problems that aren't needed.

The reason this whole situation has turned to complete shit is because the Avengers discovered the Phoenix was making a beeline for Earth, and they knew that can't be good. So it was speculated the Phoenix was going to choose Hope Summers as it's new host, so the Avengers tried to bring Hope into protective custody which... could've gone better. Cyclops went crazy and attacked the Avengers, believing that if Hope becomes the Phoenix's host, she can use it's power to bring back Mutant kind after most of them got depowered by Scarlet Witch.

Now everyone was on the moon for another fight.

'And here comes the psychos.' Drake thought with a scowl under his red domino mask as he saw Cyclops show up with Magneto, Emma Frost, Magik, the new Juggernaut AKA Colossus and Namor.

Now Drake did use to have a respected opinion about Scott Summers, but ever since he allowed Emma into his mind and to stay at his side, whispering words into his ear... yeah, Cyclops changed.

"Avengers..." Cyclops stepped forward, giving the group of Avengers, which consisted of Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, the Thing, Red Hulk, Giant Man and Sparda, a hard look. "Please step away from the girl."

Captain America gave a equally hard look back at Cyclops. "Not gonna happen, Summers. Take your X-Men back home!"

Drake looked around as his sense of danger went off, before he looked up and his eyes widened. 'Oh shit!'

"Sure, but not without Ho-"

"EVERYONE LOOK OUT!" Drake shouted, causing all attention to turn to the sky and everyone had to get out of the way as something hit the moon hard enough to make a big impact and a shockwave.

When the dust settled and everyone saw what it was that hit the moon, Hawkeye's eyes widened. "Oh no..."

Lying there, looking beaten, was Thor.

"Thor." The Thing called in concern for the God of Thunder.

The Asgardian groaned as the Thing walked over and helped Thor up, but the God of Thunder managed to lift an arm and point to the sky. Drake looked up and his eyes widened at what he saw.

Hope looked up as well as the area began to get covered in an orange light like fire. "It's here..."

And that was when the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix arrived in all it's fiery glory, wings spread as it looked down on the two groups of warring heroes. Nobody knew what it was thinking, nor did they really want to. However, the Phoenix barely did anything as the Avengers and X-Men went back to fighting, but it was doing something that Drake found very concerning.

It was staring right at him.

"That can't be good." Drake said. Why is the Phoenix staring at him? He didn't know. Maybe it remembers him from that time he shared a kiss with Jean Grey once, it was only one kiss and didn't go further than that, plus it was the stress and adrenaline. And yeah, Drake will admit he was attracted to Jean once.

"Please stop..." he heard Hope whimper and looked over to see the girl looked barely able to control the power coursing through her now that the Phoenix had arrived.

"And all of this because Cyclops wants to play God." Drake muttered with a head shake. Doesn't Cyclops know there's things you do NOT mess with? Plus with how insane the guy is getting, who knows what else he'd do with the Phoenix under his control, especially with someone like Emma whispering shit into his ear.

Hope gritted her teeth as the power within her started to go out of control. "I said... STOP!"

She suddenly released a powerful shockwave of cosmic energy that threw both the Avengers and the X-Men back as cosmic flames began to forge around them form both Hope and the Phoenix's presence. Drake landed on his feet, though he slid back quite a bit.

"Damn... that was something." Drake muttered to himself before he looked up and saw the Phoenix was... still staring at him. Why was it doing that? "Oi, you got a staring problem?"

The Phoenix just kept staring at him.

"NO!" Drake heard Cyclops shout followed by a blast of energy and saw Cyclops blast Wolverine, who had attempted to kill Hope to stop this from getting out of control.

At this rate, everyone's probably gonna die save Wolverine and Thor since Wolverine heals and Thor's a God.

"Summers, stop this madness!" Captain America tried to reason with the X-Men leader as he aided Wolverine.

Drake saw one of Stark's inventions, which he had kept on this area of the moon, take off to go battle the Phoenix, to try and stop it. Drake knew this was folly. Nothing could stop the Pheonix except another cosmic entity, and no way were they asking the Beyonder for help or even Death herself. Last thing they needed was the latter showing up, which will then bring Thanos or Deadpool and cause more problems.

Captain American looked at Cyclops. "Cyclops... Scott, we don't have much time. You have to stop this!" The man pleaded. Cyclops looked over as other members of the Avengers arrived. "Step away from the girl, Scott. We have to get her out of here. Time to be a leader, son. Don't fall sway to all this madness."

Cyclops gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as he glared at the WWII hero. "Madness? I'm trying to save my race! You're trying to snuff us all out! None of you understands this thing like I do. None of you knows this girl like me. This was all meant to happen. Hope and the Phoenix are meant to be together... and you can't stop it!"

"Sounds like a sappy love story." Drake muttered with a roll of his eyes. God, Cyclops had a freaking ego! Drake looked at the Phoenix, which seemed to have decided it had enough with waiting around and watching the fight, which was probably entertainment for it. The Phoenix then swooped down and everyone believed it was going for Hope, but it wasn't.

It went straight for Drake!

The son of Sparda's eyes widened. "Oh fuck m-"

The cosmic bird slammed into Drake's form in a fiery cosmic explosion, sending the man flying back several hundred meters as the two began to merge. Drake let out a pained scream as it felt like his body was being torn apart and lit on fire at the same time!

is that even possible?

"Sparda!" Ms. Marvel shouted in worry at seeing the man she loves in terrible pain and was about to go to his aid when Wolverine stopped her.

"Carol don't!" he told her. "We don't know what will happen if you get too close!"

Carol glared at him for his words but knew he was telling the truth. She looked on with worry as Drake screamed in pain.

Anyone who tried to get close was blasted back by a comic shockwave, most likely the Phoenix's doing so no one interrupted the bonding process.

As the Avengers tried to figure out a way to help their teammmate, the X-Men grouped together.

"What just happened?" Hope asked with wide eyes.

"The Phoenix... went for Sparda instead?!" Emma shouted with wide eyes. That was something she did not expect herself.

"Dammit." Cyclops gritted his teeth.

"Scott, what do we do now?" Emma asked her lover.

Namor rolled his eyes. "Isn't it obvious? We go and get what we want and get it into the girl."

Drake gritted his teeth as he struggled to keep in his screams of pain. This... this was pain unlike anything he's ever felt. He's been shot, stabbed, jabbed, tortured by many demons and monsters like Mundus and Mephisto, but this... this takes the pain to a whole new level in Drake's opinion. Then again, he's never had a cosmic bird try to bond itself to him.

Was this how Spider-Man felt when the Venom symbiote bonded to him? Probably not.

'I gotta... I gotta try and... get out of here!' Drake thought through the pain. 'I'm... I'm just putting people in danger. I gotta... find somewhere... on Earth... to hide and... figure this out!'

With that, he managed to summon Yamato through the pain and opened a portal. This caught the Avengers and X-Men's attention.

"NO!" Cyclops yelled in rage.

"Drake don't!" Captain America yelled.

"DRAKE!" Carol shouted as she flew for the man she loved. But Drake had already gone through the portal which closed before she could reach it.

Drake was gone...


And that's it for this chapter. I think I'm going to go with something like the Hulk, Drake going on the run to try and control the Phoenix as he's hunted by the X-Men who want the Phoenix, the Avengers who want to help but SHIELD won't make that any easy.

Might have a scene inspired by Hulk's rampage on the University campus from the 2008 Incredible Hulk movie.