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Chapter 4- More evil rises
Earth-26
Tori turned to look at Brandon, who was still in his red mask, standing still and staring at her, while she was panting.
"Mom", he called out to her.
"Brandon", she whispered, trying to get him to lower his guard. "Listen to me. I have never stopped loving you." She walked closer to him. "I believe, I still believe, that you are a blessing that fell to this Earth."
Now she was right in front of him and gently took his mask off, now looking right into his face, grasping it in her hands lovingly. "When we found you, you were so tiny and fragile. And all we could do was keep you safe." She looked into his eyes now. "Whatever you've done, I know there is good inside you."
She seemed to reach through to him now as he told her genuinely. "I want to do good, mom. I do."
Tori embraced him as he embraced her back. "And you will." She had tears in her eyes now and her voice was cracking since she was now going to kill him with the piece of his ship.
Only, before she could, the skies seemed to turn red, and both of them looked up, confused, as Brandon asked. "What is going on?"
"I don't know", Tori shook her head.
And in that moment, this Universe was destroyed as well.
Earth-21
Mark Grayson aka Invincible was amongst the rubble, looking at the split hand of that girl he'd tried to rescue, and the sight was breaking him, like everything else that was happening to him right now.
Seeing that, he fell to his knees, panting, struggling not to break down before he saw a shadow, and looked up to see his father Nolan Grayson aka Omni Man looking down upon him.
Most versions of J. Jonah Jameson would have been horrified on seeing Nolan's face, because he was their doppelganger. And he was a monster.
His expression was blank as Mark asked in a broken tone. "How could you do this?"
"That was your fault", Nolan told his son coldly. "Your stubbornness against the inevitable killed all of those people. How many more need to die, Mark? Its up to you." Tears rolled down Mark's cheeks while Nolan continued. "And what were they all doing with those fragile little lives anyway?" He tried to get Mark to listen to him. "Listen to what I'm saying. You know in your heart that I'm right."
"Right?" Mark stood up defiantly. "About how pathetic and pointless humanity is?" He wiped his tears and asked the big question. "Is mom's life worthless?"
Nolan's reply was worse than he'd expected it to be, though he'd no idea what he was expecting to be honest. "In the grand scheme of things, yes."
"How can you say those things?" Mark asked, almost begging now. "How can you say that about mom?"
Then he roared. "LIAR!" He flew at Nolan, punching his face thrice, and then continued to pound upon him, sending him staggering downwards.
Mark then made to charge and hit his father again but Nolan grabbed his hand. "For the first time in your life, I'm telling you the truth!" He slammed his son down to the ground, breaking it all before crashing upon him, sending them down into the subway, because of which neither noticed the skies had now become red.
Their crash in the subway killed many people already there, while Nolan pinned Mark's head on the tracks.
"I need", Mark tried to get up but Nolan held him down. "I need to save them!"
"No", Nolan told him before seeing a train coming in their way. "Maybe this time you will learn."
He held Mark up in front of the train, meaning the train would shatter and the people too would die on ramming into him.
Only, that never happened, because the whole Universe was destroyed in that moment, showing that in the grand scheme of things for the Multiverse, even the Viltrumite and their grand plans were insignificant, tiny and pointless at the end of the day.
Earth-10
From their mansion, the Doom Patrol team consisting of Jane, Rita Farr, Larry Trainor, Cliff Steele and Victor Stone aka Cyborg looked up at the red skies as Rita inquired. "Now what is that?"
"My systems detect its some form of energy, but nothing like the ones that we know", Victor told her, and then their Universe was destroyed by the anti-matter wave coming upon them.
Earth-203
Huntress of this world was running across rooftops, looking up at the red sky as she called out on comms. "Oracle, it's Huntress. Come in."
"Huntress, the comms are barely functional", Barbara's voice came to her.
"Barbara, can you hear me?" Huntress then asked again.
"I need more time."
"The wave's coming too quickly. You're gonna have to evac right now", Huntress immediately said, seeing the wave coming closer and closer by every second.
"I'm sending all relevant data before the wave hits."
The comms went off as Huntress asked. "Oracle? Oracle, please answer me."
They seemed to come back for a very small bit. "Sending all relevant data."
But it was too late as the anti-matter wave destroyed this Universe, disintegrating everything, including Huntress who could only stare in horror at the sight before her just as she too disintegrated into nothingness.
Earth-23
The Bruce Banner of this Earth was in an Amazon rainforest, treating the people there when pro-government soldiers came in, one of them ordering to take all the medicine.
One of them looked at Banner who told him. "The medicine is needed here for the sick."
"Who are you to decide what the people here need?" The leader asked him in a taunting tone. "These people are helping our enemies." He pointed at Banner. "And maybe you are too." He ordered the soldiers. "Take it all. This is the government's property now."
"You're making me angry", Banner now smirked at the leader, who stared at him. "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
And then his eyes turned green as a moment later, a loud roar was heard in the entire forest.
But that was as far as it went because next moment, the skies went red, and the Universe was destroyed as well.
Earth-41
Takuya Yamashiro, or Spider-Man, put on his suit, before doing some poses, and made to swing out when the skies turned red.
"Is this from Hell?" This Spider-Man randomly said before making four poses, as if preparing to fight it. "Beware, I am Spider-Man, emissary from Hell."
Unfortunately, he did not know that this was a threat even he couldn't face, as this Universe too was destroyed the very next moment.
Earth-85
The Punisher of this Earth, who happened to look like Konstantin Kovar from Earth-1, looked up at the red skies too and wondered. "What the fuck is going on here?"
He did not find out what was going on as the Universe was then destroyed.
Earth-88
The Clark Kent of this Earth, who was still known as Superboy, looked up at the red skies and spoke. "What is this?" He made his decision. "Whatever it is, I must stop it."
He flew up, but the Universe was destroyed, and him along with it.
Earth-209
Nite Owl II, Rorschach and Silk Spectre II glared at Ozymandias, having found out his plan, when someone broke the glass above.
It was Dr. Manhattan. "I am disappointed in you, Adrian. Very disappointed."
Ozymandias slid off to avoid the shattering glass when the skies turned red, shocking even him. "Okay, what the hell is that now? That wasn't part of my plan."
"That is something greater than any of you in this world, you cannot face it", Dr. Manhattan told all of them. "Your plan is a tiny speck compared to what has come now, Adrian."
The anti-matter wave destroyed everything in this Universe, while Dr. Manhattan survived, but he was converted into pure energy, and it would take him a lot of time to recreate his physical form now.
Earth-87
Duncan MacLeod was horrified as Connor MacLeod had his sword pointed at him, wanting Duncan to fight and kill him, and take his Quickening so he could defeat Kell with the combined power.
"No", Duncan shook his head. "We can beat him together."
"Then we are in agreement", Connor commented, and was about to fight, just as the skies then turned completely red, making both of them look up.
"What is going on?" Duncan asked Connor.
"I do not know, Duncan, I do not know", Connor shook his head.
"Looks like the end times have come, and even Kell won't survive this", Methos commented, looking up at the red skies, having seen some writings about death and world's end with red skies in his long life as an Immortal, but nothing really concrete.
"Are you sure?" Joe Dawson asked him.
"That's what it looks like", Methos replied, and he was proven right when this Universe too was destroyed in the next moment.
Earth-205
The Lucifer of this world was outside the hotel where those 'Pagan Gods' had gathered to oppose him.
He was going to go in and kill them all.
Inside, Dean Winchester was talking to the Archangel Gabriel as the latter said. "I can't kill my brother."
"Can't or won't?" Dean asked him.
Then suddenly, they felt it all shake, and looked out to see the skies had become red.
"What the hell?" Dean wondered as his brother Sam Winchester walked next to him, also looking out.
"Is the Apocalypse already here or what?" Sam inquired.
"No", Gabriel shook his head. "This seems worse."
Lucifer looked up and sighed. "And then that happened."
Chuck sensed the anti-matter wave and looked around, knowing this was it. "Looks like now my reign comes to an end."
Amara also saw the anti-matter wave, and realized nothing could be done. "This is it."
With that, this Universe was also destroyed.
And where these destroyed Universes once used to stand, now there was nothing but darkness, and from that darkness rose some evil beings of great power.
"The Blackest Night Falls form the skies,
The darkness grows as all light dies,
We crave your hearts and your Demise
by my Black Hand - The Dead shall rise!"
What rose, were none other than the powerful Black Lanterns, formed from the dead people of these Universes who had been reformed now, and as the darkness was replaced by the anti-matter wave of the Anti-Monitor, these Black Lanterns now became part of his army, having no memory of who they used to be once, not even resembling those people they were once upon a time even in the slightest way.
The people of these dead worlds were now nothing more than Zombies equipped with Power Rings that were fuelled by none other than Death itself, and they too would help Anti-Monitor bring Death upon the whole Multiverse now.
Earth-199999
Kent was looking ahead, a blank look on his face. He had lost not only his entire world again, but also his cousin, who had alleviated his loneliness, as well as the woman he loved, his mother who had raised him, and the Danvers family who had raised his cousin so lovingly. His good friend J'onn was gone. Winn and James were also gone, as was Argo City where a still-alive Alura had resided, and Astra as well upon having found it.
Hearing footsteps, he turned to see Kal standing next to him, also looking ahead, and Kent knew that out of everyone, Kal could probably come the closest to understanding his pain.
"I don't know what to say except I'm sorry", Kal simply told Kent, who just nodded, knowing Kal was only trying to be there for him, but he had no idea how to, and to be fair, if their positions were interchanged, Kent too would have no idea on how to really comfort Kal either.
"I guess that's all you can say really", Kent finally said, struggling not to break down, because other worlds needed him too
Kal put a hand on his shoulder and assured him. "We will do our best."
"Yeah, we will", Kent nodded in agreement. They had to do their best.
Lena was sitting, staring at the table where Danvers' corpse had been. They had moved the body to the med-bay now to be contained and preserved, with artificial sunlight upon her.
Merlin sat next to her but did not speak a word, and she told him. "When I first found out Supergirl and Kara were the same, I felt a bit angry. Of course I too had stocked my Kryptonite, so I guess it makes me a hypocrite, but human nature, you know? So when I left to find myself, it was also because I needed some time before I could face her again." Tears rolled down her cheeks again. "And now she's gone."
Arthur and Guinevere were near her too as she continued in self-loathing. "Because of my actions as Morgana, you all lost everyone you cared about, your world and time, but still live. Now I lost my world and I live. Guess its my punishment."
"No!" Arthur said forcefully as he knelt next to her, taking his 'sister's' face in his hands and making her look at him. "You are not the evil person Morgana became. You are the Morgana I grew up with. And you are also Lena Luthor. This is not a punishment, because you are too kind to deserve one."
"Its just another unfortunate loss in the Crisis", Guinevere added from her end.
Seeing these two, whom Morgana had hurt so much and taken everything from, comforting her, it seemed to make her feel a bit better.
She then looked at Merlin who embraced her into his chest and she cried again.
In their Domain, the Celestials had gathered together. They had gathered a total of three times before this as a Host, and now this Host was the fourth of its kind.
And it was obvious why they had gathered together like this. The Crisis on Infinite Earths had come, and it was destroying everything, including what they had built.
Arishem the Judge opened the proceedings. "The whole of creation is being destroyed, little by little."
"This anti-matter wave has dared to move against what we have created and destroy it", Eson the Searcher spoke next, not sounding pleased at all.
Jemiah the Analyzer then said. "The Universes we had constructed before, played a part in, they are all gone one by one."
"This insolence has to be stopped now", Hargen the Measurer said. "Countless have been destroyed, and countless more could be soon enough."
"Which means we must face this threat to everything now", Nezarr the Calculator concluded.
"Right all of you are", Arishem finally concluded the proceedings since the decision was clear. "We must leave now and face the Anti-Monitor."
Only, a portal opened into their own domain, without their permission, and that was a huge shock to them all.
"Who enters our domain without our permission?" The Mad Celestial asked as giant, blue beings with glowing centers on their foreheads and chests appeared, now facing the Celestials.
"Oh, it is you!" The Celestial Guardian immediately recognized them all.
"The Exterminators", Arishem spoke once more. "The creations we discarded for you turned on us and tried to devour us all."
"And now we have found purpose with the Anti-Monitor, so we shall finish what we started", one of the Exterminators spoke, only amusing the Celestials.
"Arrogant of you to think you can destroy us who created you", Eson told them, but the Exterminators looked undeterred.
The Celestial Gardener generated powerful light, intending to use it to exterminate the Exterminators, but one of them absorbed that light into itself, shocking all of the Celestials once more.
"Like we said, we have found new purpose", that Exterminator said as he rose up, and struck the Celestial Gardener so hard his head flew off and crashed upon the domain, now actually horrifying the Celestials at the great power their own discarded creations possessed.
The rest of the Celestial Gardener's body too crashed upon the domain as all of it shook, while another Exterminator spoke. "And it is greater than the purpose you had bestowed upon us, so now you too shall meet your end."
"Celestials, let us end this insolence", Arishem ordered, and the Celestials and Exterminators began to battle, shaking their entire domain with the power.
Earth-199999
Diana sat, looking ahead, as Steve stood next to her, knowing just how lost and broken she was. Sitting in front of her, he grasped her hand in both of his, and she looked at his hands, while also the engagement ring on her finger, before turning to look up at his face, finding only kindness and empathy in his eyes.
"How did you deal with the loss of your world?" Diana asked Steve, knowing he had lost it all on waking up from the ice. "How could you keep going on after everything that you lost?"
"It was hard, I usually just took it all out on punching bags, I had lost my time, and become a man out of time", Steve told her gently. "But eventually, after I met the Avengers, I let them in, they became my family. Letting others in, letting them be there for you, that was how I learnt to move past it."
Diana looked at Steve, and realized she too needed to let him in now, and collapsed into his chest, sobbing again as Steve stroked her hair gently, comforting her while kissing her forehead and cheek.
Aragorn and Legolas were looking out at the red skies, their faces grim and serious.
"I remember a time when the two of us and Steve stood like this", Aragorn reminded his friend. "In Edoras."
"I had said the Eye of the Enemy is moving", Legolas remembered. "Now, the Enemy is moving, and destroying everything, all of Eä is under threat from this."
"We had never thought that existence was larger than our world", Aragorn noted sadly. "But we never thought something more evil and powerful than even the first Dark Lord would forth to destroy all of that."
"And like before, us and our friends are all that stand in its way", Legolas told him the state of affairs, so once more, the Heroes would have to battle this great threat.
The Charmed Ones saw Batman, looking at a wall blankly, and Paige, the most sensitive one out of them, tried to talk to him. "We're sorry, we-"
Only, Batman punched the wall with his fist, and then continued pounding the wall, to the shock of the rest, as the wall cracked.
"I was going to give it." He admitted, which shocked the others, more so Bruce and Catwoman, who were there behind him. "Hang up the cowl. Retire. Settle down. Be at peace. Like our parents always wanted. Like Alfred always wanted...I lost...everything. My sons...Barbara…..Jim…..Ace...Selina."
He seemed to be struggling not to break down, as Paige put a hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him while he told all of them in the room. "I lost my parents when I was eight years old. I dedicated my life to make sure no one lost their parents like I did, but now...I lost everything that ever meant something to me."
Bruce knelt near Batman, putting a hand on his other shoulder. "I'm sorry for what happened. I don't know how exactly you feel, but we all have lost people. Earth-8, Earth-9, Earth-89, your world, our friends from there are gone too, so I feel the pain still."
"So do I", Catwoman said, standing before him. "So we'll be together now, please, let us in."
Batman seemed reluctant, even if he knew they were trying to help him, and simply stood up, not saying a word, but allowing them to stand there with him in silent support.
One Exterminator now held Eson's Staff in his hand, and used its power to slice Eson himself into two, slaying him as well, leaving only a wounded Arishem, who tried to subdue them all once more with his telepathy.
"Your mind games are no match for us now", one Exterminator told Arishem, as the domain darkened and powerful winds blew, lightning striking at the Exterminators, now damaging them to some extent, but still not being enough.
Arishem tried to hold them back telekinetically, but they pushed against his power, making him stagger back as his heels dug into the domain, but he was being overpowered.
Then, his Cosmic light came out of him, and all of the Exterminators absorbed the Cosmic light into themselves, with Arishem's powerful body reducing bit by bit until it was reduced to nothingness.
The Celestials had been destroyed!
And then, the anti-matter wave came upon the domain of the Celestials as the Exterminators all disappeared in a flash of light.
Earth-199999
Yelena stood near the window, a tear rolling down her cheek before she heard footsteps and knew Natasha was next to her.
"I and Terry, we may not have worked out, but he still meant a lot to me", Yelena told her sister. "He was sweet, kind, he was too good for me."
Natasha did not say a word, simply hugged Yelena who cried a bit into her sister's shoulder, the older Black Widow simply being there for her sister.
Parker was sitting, Wanda next to him as he told her. "It feels like I failed. Miguel is gone, old man is gone, Eddie of Earth-84 is gone, now we tried to save Earth-38 but its also gone, and Terry, he….."
Wanda held his hand and told Parker comfortingly. "You tried your best, okay? You did all you could." Her face turned grim. "This thing was just too much."
"I know", Parker sighed.
Rebekah stood near her family, Klaus and Hayley holding Hope before Klaus realized something, and looked up at Rebekah. "You were not there with us when we fought the Shadow Demons."
"Yeah", Hayley noted. "You were out there. Only the more powerful ones were out there."
"What were you doing?" Freya asked.
"Oh, you don't know?" Kol asked his family with a smirk.
"Guess its time to tell you", Rebekah said, and a divine light shone from her temporarily, making them avert their gazes before she came back to normal. "I am no longer an Original Vampire. I am a Goddess."
That made their jaws drop as Klaus asked. "Are you…are you…..?"
"Yes brother, I am", Rebekah told them all.
"With power over light", Freya noted with interest. "A Vampire's weakness."
"So you are a powerful Goddess now, aunt Rebekah?" Hope asked innocently.
"Yes little one, I am, and I am going to watch over our whole family now", Rebekah said to her, as Klaus walked to his sister and gave her a hug.
"I am happy for you, really."
"Thank you, brother", she said before Freya too embraced her.
"Live this life to its best, sister."
"I will", Rebekah said, then also sharing a nod with Hayley and Erik.
Stefan, who was in the corner, told her. "I am happy for you, Rebekah, really."
"Yeah, congratulations", Caroline said as well.
"Now you can have you always wanted", Bonnie smiled at her.
"Good for you, luv", Enzo said as well.
Rebekah knew these four were genuine and kind, and nodded in appreciation. "Thank you."
"So, a former Vampire gets power over light, eh?" Spike muttered to Angel, Cordelia, Buffy and Faith. "Think there's a joke there somewhere."
"Yeah, just not sure what kind", Angel sighed.
"Eh, we'll figure it out", Cordelia shrugged. "Right guys?"
"Right", Buffy noted.
"Yeah, until then let's think of what to do next", Faith sighed.
Loki then walked in there, as Rebekah smiled at him and grasped his arm, clinging to him. "My God."
"My Goddess", Loki looked into her eyes, and the look he had, it was as if he was worshipping her, Rebekah knowing she had truly found love now.
Apokolips
Darkseid stood, the remaining Furies and other New Gods all assembled, for he knew what was coming upon the Multiverse, and he was going to fight it, because only he could be the ruler with the Anti-Life Equation.
The anti-matter wave spread across Apokolips while the skies were red already.
The ruler of the Hellish Planet grew to gargantuan proportions to face off against his equally, or rather, even more fearsome opponent.
"I am entropy, I am death, I am the Destroyer, the Dark God, the Darkness, the God of Evil, I am Darkseid!"
However, throughout all of this, the Anti-Monitor was simply silent, not responding to a single title Darkseid had spoken to threaten him.
Then the Black Lanterns flew in, using their powers upon the Furies who tried to fight back, but while they took out some, eventually, the power of the Black Lanterns dwarfed theirs, and they were taken out one by one.
Five Black Lanterns tried to attack Darkseid himself but he punched three of them so hard they shattered before holding the remaining two in his fist, crushing them into nothingness.
"Is this all you can conjure?" Darkseid boasted, and in that moment, the anti-matter seemed to form the shape of a person.
And then, it appeared.
A bluish being with glowing yellow eyes stood there with blue gauntlets to cover red hands and a silver armor with golden linings across it.
The Anti-Monitor had come!
The other New Gods tried attack him, but the anti-matter wave blew them back, slowly destroying them.
Darkseid struck first, using the Darkness to strike the Anti-Monitor, but to his horror, it was blocked, though Anti-Monitor did very slightly stagger, but that was it.
Then Anti-Monitor struck, and Darkseid was thrown back, rolling upon the ground.
He tried to blow back Anti-Monitor with telekinesis, but Anti-Monitor easily powered through it, and so he warped the whole area, trying to crash it upon Anti-Monitor.
But the anti-matter wave emanated from the Anti-Monitor and Darkseid's reality warp shattered into pieces while being consumed.
Darkseid produced a powerful shockwave that seemed to shake the whole Apokolips and break a lot of stuff, but Anti-Monitor still resisted it.
Seeing no choice, Darkseid finally fired his Omega Beams. "Now you shall perish!"
Anti-Monitor formed a shield with the anti-matter wave which actually absorbed the Omega Beams, now Darkseid looking on in utter horror.
"For my anti-matter to consume it all, your pitiful existence must be ended", Anti-Monitor pointed at Darkseid, and a wave of anti-matter consumed the Dark God, making him scream until there was nothing left of him.
And then, the anti-matter wave spread upon Apokolips as well, the Hellish Planet being the next to fall.
Another chapter over, and I used it for some cameo fun too. So now we had Brightburn, Invincible, Japanese Spider-Man, Hulk 2003, Doom Patrol 2019, Superboy 1988, Punisher 1989, Birds of Prey 2003, Watchmen 2009, Highlander and Supernatural worlds, which are all gone too.
There were some of these like Watchmen, Japanese Spider-Man, Highlander and Supernatural which I originally planned to include in bigger roles but just couldn't figure out what to do, so they are just cameos in this Multiverse now.
Now I know Supernatural has its own version of God and Archangels and Lucifer and 'Pagan Gods', so, here's the explanation- Chuck is not God, rather a powerful Primordial Being, and when 'Supernatural' Universe first came into existence, it had nothing in it, then Chuck found out about the actual God and Lucifer and Gods and Archangels, so Chuck decided to become God of that Universe and some other empty ones, and created life there, now being hailed as God in these Universes, and the Archangels and Lucifer here are all inspired by the real deals, but are just other beings who share the name without realizing it, and 'Pagan Gods' too are beings with the same name with similar power but much weaker in scale.
And Amara is another Primordial Being who is Chuck's twin sister of course.
The implication being that the actual Kali would slaughter Chuck, Amara, Lucifer and the Archangels effortlessly.
Put too much thought into this cameo but needed to explain it due to my own series' lore.
Now I know Dr. Manhattan is very, very, very OP, but this is the movie version of him, and I haven't seen the HBO show so I don't know how powerful he became there. While Anti-Monitor is closer in power level to the comics version of him, which is why even Dr. Manhattan couldn't do much.
When I originally planned to have Watchmen in a bigger role, Dr. Manhattan would have gotten more to do but now he's just a cameo.
Still, due to his great power he did not die, just got reduced to pure energy, and it would take him a long time to recreate his physical form, which is how he is taken out of Crisis.
And Darkseid is also destroyed, hell of a way to introduce Anti-Monitor, isn't it? Especially since it took two Justice Leagues- the OP Smallville Justice League and the less powerful but still powerful DCEU Justice League, to drive Darkseid back in my series.
So defeating him like this establishes Anti-Monitor as a powerful threat.
The Celestials also get destroyed by the Exterminators who now work for Anti-Monitor, as do the Black Lanterns, and Annihilus.
In between, we had some moments of comfort, and also a heart-warming moment with the Originals family.
Thanks a lot to Brainstorm Sorcerer for his help again.
Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter.