Secret Crisis: The Kang Dynasty Chapter 1
The Realm of Vishanti
A giant ribbon creature was in hot pursuit of Doctor Strange of Earth-838, Sara Lance of Earth-637,and a young Latina girl named America Chavez trying to reach the legendary Book of Vishanti.
Doctor Strange uses eldritch magic to slow the ribbon creature down with ice. Sara Lance used telekinesis to chuck debris at the creature as she formed The Shield of Seraphim buy them time.
America looks back as the creature keeps breaking through their defense spells and is gaining on them.
"¿Eso lo mató?" Asked America Chavez
"No, Así es como lo matamos" answered Earth-838 Strange.
"The sooner we get the book, the sooner we can stop these things trying to kill you kid" said Earth-637 Sara.
"The Book of Vishanti!" said America
"We can't let it take your powers! Get to the book!" shouts Earth-838 Strange
"JUMP!" Shouts Earth-637 Sara as the trio jump across a gap.
The crimson ribbon monster bursts through the ground below them as it appears before them. One of its tendrils stabs Strange through his leg.
Sara then brings all the floating debris around them as Strange helps create a containment spell. However the creature is quickly proving too powerful.
"It's too strong! I can't hold it!" said Strange groaning in pain.
"Your leg!" said Sara looking at the wound taking its toll burning Strange.
She then quickly Eldritch magic as well to try to help Strange with containing the creature.
"I'm so sorry. But this is the only way" said Strange using his other hand to drain America of her powers. Slowly killing her.
"NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Asked America horrified.
"I can't let that thing take your powers. You can't control it. But I can" assured Strange.
"STEPHEN! STOP THIS!!" demanded Sara.
"I'm sorry Sara."
"I thought we were friends? You're killing me!" said America.
Strange with the upmost heartbreak tells her
"In the grand calculus of the Multiverse, your sacrifice is worth more than your life"
The creature breaks through and stabs Strange through the heart lifting him up.
"NO!!!" shouts Sara.
The two ladies looked over towards the Book of Vishanti and with a sense of desperate urgency, Sara tells America.
"The book. I'll keep it distracted. Now GO!"
Sara conjures the Rings of Raggador to slice as many tendrils as possible to clear a path for America.
America ducks and weaves underneath the monster while Sara did everything in her power to grant the kid safe passage towards the Book.
Sara then conjured constructs of buzzsaws and chainsaws and launched them at the creature cutting it down to size.
The body of Strange drops on the ground as America was inches away. But the monster grabs her by her arms and legs holding her in place.
Sara overwhelmed with the tendrils looks over at Strange and America as she quickly conjured the Images of Ikkon and the Crimson bands of Cyttorak to pull the monster over.
The monster roars and smacks Sara onto the ground.
Running out of options, Sara fired a focused magic blast at the monster getting its attention.
"COME AND GET ME!!!!!" she shouts as the monster roars at her general direction.
Sara conjuring a Tao Mandala on one hand and the Sacred Sword of Vishanti.
America with an overwhelming sense of fear, began to create a portal to the Multiverse screaming and her eyes turning bright blue.
Strange throws energy disks freeing America as she fell.
"So long kid. Good luck" said Sara.
The portal pulls America in as does Strange and Sara.
The three get pulled in spinning and spiraling out of control onto certain doom as then back on Earth-616 Prime Sara wakes up with a jolt and in cold sweat in bed next to Ava on the Waverider.
She was out of breath gasping as she frantically looked around.
"Babe?!" asked Ava.
Sara kept hyperventilating covering her face with her hands to wipe off the sweat.
"Sara? Sara are you okay?!" asked Ava
Sara sits on the edge of her side of the bed slowly catching her breath and composure again.
Ava goes to check the time as it was 8:30 AM New York time.
"Sara?"
Sara closes her eyes and takes a deep breath
"I need to find Doctor Strange"
Queens New York, 3 hours earlier.
A thunderstorm was brewing in the city as the sounds of Thunder and bright flashes of lightning on full blast.
Peter Parker and MJ Watson were in bed still sleeping. However Peter was violently tossing and turning.
*cackle*
Peter began to groan a bit and winced.
*sound of Pumpkin bomb winding up*
"No. No!" he began to shout in his sleep.
*MJ gets impaled*
"NO!" shouts Peter.
MJ quickly realized something was very wrong.
"Peter?"
*Sounds of Peter pummeling Green Goblin*
"Peter? PETER?!" MJ tries to shake him awake.
*Peter snaps the neck of Green Goblin*
"PETER!" shouts MJ as he finally wakes up
With a loud gasp, he frantically looks around as he sees MJ holding him trying to calm him back down.
"What happened? Did I hurt you?" he asked with concern and worry.
"No. No. It's okay. It's okay. I'm okay. I'm safe." she assured him.
MJ cupped her hands on Peter's face as the two stared into each other's eyes.
"It's just another bad dream" she said.
Peter breaks down into tears with MJ pulling him in for a hug resting her head on his.
Ever since the death of Aunt May, these nights were a routine. Every night his dreams cause him to grow increasingly violent in them. He couldn't keep this to himself anymore.
"It's the same dream every night. I keep hearing his laugh in my head. I couldn't save you. And I end up killing him. But I don't feel better." Explained Peter.
MJ only sat next to him on his side of their bed.
"Goblin is gone. You cured him and he's back home. You gave those guys a second chance and everyone is safe. Including me. Why didn't you tell me this sooner?" she asked him.
"I just, tried to keep going. Carry on. Because every time I get knocked down I get back up and move forward. But this time it's been harder to do." Explained Peter.
MJ takes his hand.
"You're not alone Peter. You're never gonna be alone. Because no matter how far away we are from each other, *places his hand on her heart* your right here. *places her hand in his heart* and I'm right there." Explained MJ.
Peter gets up to go look out the window with the rain falling and the lights of New York bright.
MJ walks up behind him to wrap her arms around his waist.
"We're gonna get through this, and we're gonna get through it together."
*cues somber music*
SECRET CRISIS: THE KANG DYNASTY